<div dir="ltr"> A Small Town in Germany has a main character front and center with that "legend"<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Michael Bailey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.lee.bailey@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.lee.bailey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">o<br clear="none"><div>> 1. Legend = cover story (maybe via Le Carre): March’s relationship to<br clear="none">
> Ice is a fact, not part of a false identity or a deceptive background for<br clear="none">> Ice or his company.<br clear="none">
><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> From: David Morris [mailto:<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" shape="rect" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>]<br clear="none">
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 1:14 PM<br clear="none">> To: jochen stremmel<br clear="none">> Cc: Monte Davis; Thomas Eckhardt; pynchon -l<br clear="none">> Subject: Re: BEER Ch. 6, 53-57: knotting into March Kelleher<br clear="none">
><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Legend in this sense means a key to interpretation.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Like Rosetta Stone,<div class="im">
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><br clear="none">> On Monday, October 28, 2013, jochen stremmel wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I think you are right, Monte. Pynchon's use of "legend" here is in the<br clear="none">
> sense saga, lore, myth, not like Le Carré's usage, which might not be<br clear="none">> MI6 argot but a Germanism, "Legende" in the sense of cover story for a<br clear="none">> spy. I didn't look it up again in his books.<br clear="none">
><br clear="none"></div>> And Thomas is right, of course, with the "Schlageter" quote.<br clear="none">> Interestingly, the Wikipedia entry offers two translation of the<br clear="none">> original German: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst." shape="rect" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst.</a>And tells<br clear="none">
> that March is not alone with her
misattribution to Goering.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> 2013/10/28 Monte Davis <<a href="mailto:montedavis@verizon.net" shape="rect" target="_blank">montedavis@verizon.net</a>>:<br clear="none">
>> TE> Having just read some of Le Carré's novels, I find this reading of<br clear="none">>> 'legend' quite convincing. This would suggest that hashslingerz is a CIA<br clear="none">>> front, no?<br clear="none">
>><br clear="none">>> It's a tenuous association: I take Le Carre's usage to be MI6 argot, but<br clear="none">>> (1)<br clear="none">>> don't remember seeing "legend" used that way in espionage fiction by<br clear="none">
>> others;<br clear="none">>> (2) don't know that TRP has read JLC, his peer in paranoia and<br clear="none">>> hustle/counter-hustle; and (3) don't often see Maxine as thinking spy-wise<br clear="none">
>> rather than PI-wise. (Of course, one could debate whether that sentence<br clear="none">>> speaks for Maxine or the narrator over her shoulder.)<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> In any event, there are plenty of more compelling links between Gabriel<br clear="none">
>> Ice<br clear="none">>> and the Permanent Government. This one's quite possibly my illusion of<br clear="none">>> connectedness, but I'm happy to share...<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">
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