Berthold

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

One bee-bitten Texan wrote yesterday:
>Bert Brecht's early poems often deal, youth-romantically, with the sea.
>More precisely, to him the lords of the sea are pirates (Ballad of the

When writing this I thought that Steven Weisenburger's stuff on "Berthold"
as the Germanic "Lord of the Sea" and agent of "whiteness" etc. has already 
been mentioned on the list during GRGR6. But now I'm not that certain. Hmm?
Anyway, I meant it as an addition to Weisenburger.

>_GR_'s III chapter gives an umbrella name to its
>lively assemblage of piratic seas, American frontiers, Rimbaud's oceans,
>Villon's Paris, and Sinclair's Chicago. (And Germany in the year Zero. LA
>in late 60s and early 70s. SciFi environs. Eco-spiritual dwellings. Etc.)   

"Etc." contains something quintessential: Oz.

Etc.

Heikki