Richard Romeo on Gottfried

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

This is an interesting comment on the whole feedback loop think we were 
exploring a while ago.  I'm still thinnking it ov3er.  IN the meantime, 
in case you can't tell from my typing, I've been celebrating a pass with 
distinction on my exmas.  Id' love to be modest, but well. . . .

Bonnie

On Tue, 11 
Jul 1995, Circ Staff wrote:

> 
> 	The Germans translate Tolstoy's magnum opus as KRIEG UND 
> FRIEDEN.  "Fried" is the root of many German words that concern peace -- 
> and so the name Gottfried becomes, in Pynchon, even more ironic, a 
> multilingual evocation of transcendence through annihilation.
> 
> 				Andrew Walser
> 				University of Illinois-Chicago
> 
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