Translated Excerpt Reinhard Kleist Knock Out!

Translated excerpt

Reinhard Kleist Knock Out! Die Geschichte von Emile Griffith

Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2019 ISBN 978-3-551-73363-4 pp. 84-104

Reinhard Kleist Knock Out! The Story of Emile Griffith

Translated by Michael Waaler

IT’S MR. CLANCY. WHY CAN’T THEY JUST LEAVE ME ON PEACE?!?

I DON’T WANT TO SEE ANYONE!

TELL HIM, I UNDERSTAND AND THAT HE KNOWS WHERE TO FIND ME.

MOMMY ALWAYS TAKES CARE OF ME.

© 2019 Carlsen Verlag / © 86 2020 Litrix.de 4 GOOD IDEA. SORRY, OTHERWISE, YOU’D I DON’T CLANCY, I GOT BE THE FIRST IN EVEN WANNA TO GO HOME MY CLUB TO BOX BOX... I JUST AGAIN. I FORGOT NAKED! WANNA...… MY LOCKER KEY.

WHY YOU STANDING AROUND LIKE THAT, KID?

NOT WHAT? BE HOME ALONE.

CAN’T WE PING-PONG? WELL, OKAY OKAY THEN. JUST PLAY NOW YOU THEN. TWO LET’S WORK ON PING-PONG WANNA PLAY DOLLARS FOR YOUR LEG WORK, INSTEAD? PING-PONG!?! THE WINNER! OKAY?

I STILL WON. HAND OVER MY TWO DOLLARS!

THERE’S THE EMILE THEN I KNOW, NOT THE ONE JUST I WANNA WHO SLUNK IN HERE GIVE ME REMATCH! A MOMENT AGO. SOME TIME, CLANCY.

GET BACK UP YOUR TREE, YOU APE!!!

IT’S NICE TO SEE YOU BACK IN THE RING, MR. GRIFFITH! YOU’VE JUST DEFENDED YOUR TITLE. CON- GRATULATIONS!!

THE REFEREE NO, I JUST KNOW RUBY GOLDSTEIN HAS HOW DO YOU THAT I HIT HIM. BEEN UNDER A LOT OF NOW FEEL, THAT’S ALL. CRITICISM. SHOULD HE HAVING KILLED I DIDN’T WANT... HAVE STOPPED THE BENNY PARET...? FIGHT EARLIER?

I DON’T KNOW... HE WAS JUST DOING HIS JOB …

NO MORE QUESTIONS!!! NOT TOO HOT, IT SEEMS!

... REASON FOR JUSTIFYING SUCH A BRUTAL SPORT. IF THEY ARE UNABLE TO MAKE BOXING ... COUNT SAFER. THEN I WILL BAN ITS ON THAT! TELEVISED BROADCAST. YOU CAN...

HYPOCRITE! THE TRUTH IS THAT WE LIVE IN ONE OF THE MOST VIOLENT COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE RING IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE STREETS.

I WHO GOT WAS IT! IT? ...

DAMN MURDERER!!! YOU SHOULD SEEMS TO HANG ... BE HAPPENING WRONG A LOT LATELY, NUMBER. CLANCY!

LEFT!

KEEP GOING!

I AIN’T GONNA LET YOU STOP UNTIL YOUR LEFT HITS JUST AS HARD AS IT USED TO ...

WHAT’S THAT IS NO. I THERE? THAT A HAVEN’T JOKE? BEEN HAVE FIGHTING! YOU BEEN FIGHTING?

WHEN I SHAVE, WHAT I DON’T USE A MIRROR THEN? ANYMORE! I JUST SEE HIS FACE. I SEE HIM IN MY DREAMS. EVERY NIGHT! HE STANDS THERE AT THE END OF MY BED, JUST LOOKING AT ME.

HE’S WITH ME EVERY MINUTE. I CUT I TELL HIM THAT I’M MYSELF... SORRY, BUT HE THAT’S NEVER ANSWERS. WHAT!

DIDN’T I BEAR EVERYTHING ELSE? THE EVIL AUNT, THE WRY LOOKS, THE STUPID JOKES! I LAUGHED AND PLAYED THE CLOWN.

BUT THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS. THAT’S NOT LIFE. YOU DON’T GET TO CHANGE WHAT HAPPENED!

AND I WANT NOTHING MORE AND THEN THAN THAT IT ONE TIME... JUST NEVER I HIT BACK! HAPPENED.

YOU SAY SOMETHING, GUY? YOU OKAY BACK THERE?

© 2019 Carlsen Verlag / © 95 2020 Litrix.de 13 YOU WHAT ASKED ME ELSE WAS WHY I JUST MOMMY’S HOUSE WHY I WANTED I GONNA WASN’T PAID OFF. TO KEEP HAD TO HAVE DO? A REMATCH. EVERY FIGHT WAS FIGHTING. GOOD MONEY. AND I DIDN’T WANNA DISAPPOINT CLANCY AND MR. ALBERT. AND MY FANS ...

AND YOU? WHY DIDN’T YOU GIVE UP BOXING?

OH YEAH? OKAY. I HONESTLY WANTED ......

I WANTED THE BAD VOICES IN MY HEAD TO STOP!

TO NOT HEAR THEM ABOVE THE CLAMOR AND CHEERS!

AIN’T THAT THE TRUTH!

I’M WORLD CHAMPION, MOMMY!

WELL, WHAT THAT’S THE ELSE CAN YOU FELLA WHO EXPECT FROM KILLED BENNY A NIGGER?!! PARET!

I HEARD HE’S ALSO A QUEER...

LET’S LOOK OVER THERE, MOMMY...

STAND ASIDE, JUNIOR.

LET’S GO, MOMMY!

JUST YOU TRY BECOMING WORLD CHAMPION!!

YOU AREN’T FIT TO WASH MY JUNIOR’S FEET!

YOU BUMS!!!!

MOMMIE! IT’S TRUE!

WE DON’T WANT ANOTHER BLOODBATH, HAHAHA!

THERE’S NO HALF MEASURES HERE! THIS IS GODDAMN BOXING!

YOU PROMISED TO FIGHT! AND TAKE TO WIN!!! THOSE GLOVES OFF!

BUT WHO WANTS TO WEAR THE HAT OF A KILLER?