Re Geli Tripping

[Adam J. Thornton]

> Does anybody on the list have any thoughts on the pretty young witch
> tripping gaily through Tchitcherine's and Slothrop's lives, Geli
> Tripping? Especially her name? "Tripping" is obvious, but could Pynchon
> have chosen "Geli" as some sort of reference to Adolf Hitler's niece,
> Geli Raubal?

Could be.  I always read Gaily Tripping as sort of the opposite of Saure
Bummer, myself.

Adam
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