h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Kyselak was here - A87782665
Author: Tavaron da Quirm - Arts Editor - U1314679

I was inspired to write this short Entry by Pastey's Entry for the Post ( A87781783 ) and his complaining about graffiti in Vienna.

I personally know a current Kyselak impersonator.

I hope you enjoy this little piece of information.

Jolly good, Tav! The Anglo-Saxon equivalent is Kilroy, but I don't know if he is based on a real person, or even was a real person.

Two minor nitpicks on first reading: Inscription is spelt with a "p".

You have made two sentences of >>When Kyselak took a vacation of four months in 1825 and traveled on foot through Austria and Bavaria, accompanied by his dog. The most important thing he carried along was black oil paint and a stencil. <<
This should be one sentence, joined by a comma.

That stencil thing - really makes one think of Banksy. Do you have any genuine Banksy work in Vienna?

thank you

I'm afraid I don't know if we have a Banksy.

I made these changes.

This is wonderful. Thanks for sharing this fabulous story. What an inventive character.

In the section, 'Who was Kyselak?', you've mixed past and present tenses. I think you probably want to go back and change to past tense throughout.

I didn't notice, I'll change that

I corrected it.

In the second paragraph of the ' How to become a legend' section there's a section that reads:

Wherever he went, be it he left his name on walls and rocks for everyone to see.

There's either some extraneous or missing words in there.

Other than that, great entry. Interesting and informative.


Geggs

... a sentence that reads....

But you knew that, I'm sure.



Geggs

Thanks!
I deleted the 2 words.

Excellent entry!
All I can think of to add is to suggest a link to A13911725 ' Things to do in Vienna' where you've mentioned Vienna.

<BB<

A cursory google search last night (before the internet packed up on me) showed that the Banksys in Vienna have apparently been erased. Shame. I think I saw a genuine one in Paris, and possibly in Dublin.

Anyway. Nothing to do with your entry. Except, as I say, that we learn from your entry that the concept of quickie graffiti with the help of stencils was obviously not invented by Banksy.

Hey Tav, thanks for this. I had no idea that someone took up 'tagging' as a hobby so long ago. Very interesting!

This is a really good entry, I really enjoyed reading it.

I personally wouldn't worry about adding lots of things like Banksy stuff, it's not needed. As it stands as a stand-alone entry it's a great and informative read! Excellent stuff!

Thanks BB, Elektra and Pastey!

I have added the link to my Entry about Vienna. I'm afraid I forgot adding any links altogether.

I wasn't suggesting she mentioned Banksy. It just reminded me of it. The entry's fine as it is.

No, but I started thinking "Maybe introducing more about...." and then caught myself!

Eery is an accepted spelling but eerie is much more common (google hits: eery 1.4m, eerie 5.1m)

due to an infection with cholera > due to infection with cholera , or better still, > of cholera.

Would 'all that was the Austrian monarchy' be best rendered as 'the whole of the Austrian Empire'?

To the day Joseph Kyselak has many impersonators > Joseph Kyselak still has many impersonators

Since 'Kyselak, the first graffiti tagger' is not a translation, you should perhaps say so. E.g. < FOOTNOTE >Or, as we might say, 'Kyselak, the first graffiti tagger'.< /FOOTNOTE >

This is a good story.

You have to admire Kyselak for his ingenuity and cheek but... Somehow his story sounds like an effort to be noticed, by a man who knew he was a nonentity.

I don't think I have any crits that haven't already been mentioned.

thanks Recumbentman, I made those changes.

He definitely was a nonentity, but I think it's a funny story. And he managed to be remembered for 200 years by doing not really a lot.

There was a lot of that graffiti stuff going on in the 19th Century, when tourism first got popular. Also chipping off pieces of the Great Pyramid. (I've got one, from a student.)

Does anybody remember the poem parody by Morris Bishop?

'And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings!
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Also the names of Emory P. Gray,
Mr. and Mrs. Dukes, and Oscar Baer
of 17 West 4th Street, Oyster Bay.'