I love El Kabong so much. He is my favorite cartoon character from my childhood. Here is a more contemporary re-imagining of the El Kabong mythos.
Heheh, mythos. I used "el kabong" and "mythos" in the same sentence.
That's weird, isn't it?
More originally, here is an old one, in which El Kabong battles Walker de Plank.
A memorable quote:
El Kabong never quits.
He rights wrongs,
punishes oppressors,
gives to the poor,
robs from the rich,
borrows from the middle class!
한 가랑이에 두 다리를 넣는다
one pant-leg-LOC two leg-OBJ put-PRES
[Someone] is putting two legs in one pant-leg.
This might be the slapstick of proverbs. Or the comic relief. I guess the idea is that a person gets nervous and tries to put on pants and fails, putting two legs into one pant-leg. It’s a bit like Laurel and Hardy… or the picture at right.
The word 가랑이 means “crotch” or “inseam” in the dictionary, but I could see it being extended to the idea of the pant-leg. I could never understand why in English, a pant-leg couldn’t simply be called a “pant.”
Mi espíritu y mi cuerpo
tienen siempre
loca sed
de esos mundos nuevos
que voy creando sin cesar
y de las cosas
y de los elementos
y de los seres
y de esa sed admirable
nace el poder creador
y es fuego
que no resiste mi cuerpo
que en continua
renovación
de juventud
de carne
y de espíritu
es un y es mil
insaciable sed…
– Nahui Olin
Carmen Mondragón (que se llamaba con el seudónimo Nahui Olin) era una poeta y artista mexicana, activa en los años 20 y 30, pero vivió desde 1893 hasta 1978.
