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Saturday January 18th 2020Tim
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In
The Rabbit of Usk it could well be a stretch to have
Vilbert Oberst playing with the Knightsbridge Quartet
under the stars and moon on the Chesil Beach. It was
before the second world war when Vilbert Oberst was
living in London, England. Not even certain the
Knightsbridge Quartet does things like serenade the Full
Moon. But somehow or other, Freckles had to get dropped
from a parachute in wartime from a lumbering Luftwaffe
transport airplane. There are other ways this might have
been achieved but the key word here is Fiction, and at
least Vilbert was able to recognize Chesil Beach from
the air. On a personal note, the Chesil Beach is
interesting geologically unless you're a schoolboy
enduring a field day in Arctic conditions.
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Herr Oberst
himself later on in the war got shot done in the Balkans
by a Croatian Patriot. He'd married the woman who'd shot
him down and after the war Oberst had settled down to
contented married life in rural Croatia with a highly
decorated hero of the People's Republic. Our hero was
accompanying Marta's boy child who went by the name of
Dragan, which translates as Precious, when he heard the
account of how Freckles arrived in the British Isles
from Herr Oberst. Precious smuggled counterfeit Winston
Cigarettes which were packaged in Albania. But for the
purposes of being introduced to his mother and
step-father our hero had to understand that Precious was
a teetotaler who didn't smoke and was usefully employed
as a carpenter.
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