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The funeral of Heini Göbel

  Heini Göbel (on the left) in Die Zwölf Geschworenen   "Look Phil", said Chris, and he showed me a DVD with Heini on the cover. Chris loaded it up while Lothar, who had just successfully come out of a week long artificially induced coma, talked to me about the best way to kill a wild boar. "They are clever animals, he said, very clever, and when the full moon is out there is no point in trying to hunt them, they'll see you." He was showing me pictures of an animal, with long, rough, hazelnut hair, laid out on a forest floor in autumn. The boar was more bear than pig. This is what the big horned old boars looked like in ancient times. Lothar squatted behind the animal, his complexion was rosy then, his body still bulky. He pointed to the boars testis in the picture; they were swollen up into twin balloons, and said: - "You can't eat this kind, the flavour is too strong, although some of the local Romanians do. It's an a