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[Andrew Dinn]

Chris Stolz writes:

> Andrew Dinn-- where is your tag from?  Rilke?

    Daran, nachdem die Wasserwogen
    Von unsrer Suendflut sich verzogen
    Der allerschoenste Regenbogen
    Als Gottes Gnadenzeichen steht!

Hmm, a bit too smooth and graceful for Rilke, nix?

It actually comes from Bach's St John Passion, forming the crux of the
whole work (as 'twere). Jes couldn't resist that rainbow!

But check out the alternative .sig from General Golbery appended
below. The ultimate tyrants apology!

Golbery was Brazil's eminence grise throughout the military
dictatorship. If you think Pynchon knows everything you should see
what Golbery had up his sleeve. When it was suggested that he might
destroy government records which were past their sell-by date his
reply was to the effect that information could certainly accumulate
but never disappear - including the request, which was duly filed.


Andrew Dinn
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Geopolitical truth is like a hedgehog.  It doesn't know much, but it
knows one big thing.  And here is the power of geopolitics properly
applied.  It is robust in perspective, admittedly partial, always
incomplete, schematic even, and at times fanatic.  In the end it
unifies and clarifies, and imposes on complex reality its imperatives,
to plan and to act. -- General Golbery do Couto e Silva, 1957