\t\t\t\tFor as long as I’ve read Ben Katchor’s “Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer” series I never knew what “Knipl” might have meant. I didn’t think much of it, either, but if asked I guess I would have said that it was some sort of play on the word “nipple.” Such a puerile pun for such a stately, poetic character as Julius Knipl makes no sense whatsoever, but absent any other clue I would imagine I am not the only one who makes a connection between Knipl and nipple.<\/p>\n
“Knipl” is, according to a reviewer, an untranslatable Yiddish word meaning “the handful of change or small bills required to get by or just get home from some unforeseeable urban adventure.”<\/p>\n
Who knew such a perfect word existed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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