Them Danged Swedes Again Yingle Yangle

[David Casseres]

Harrison Sherwood, a true hero of literary digitality, sez

[great stuff about all those Swedes, who turn out to be real, etc.]

>Scoffers Please Note: In this particular instance Pynch more than did
>his homework. He got it one-hundred-percent, dead-solid-perfect Right.

YES!  And isn't that more interesting, more revealing, than the supposed geef to be found here and there -- all of which I give the initial presumption that they are in fact Devices of some sort, to be understood at some future time by someone like Harrison who will do the spadework to check them out *thoroughly*.

>GRATUITOUS HUMOROUS NOTES:
>
>G.H.N #1) More Net-casting yielded the Dramatis Personae of "Kristina,"
>a historical play by Strindberg, featuring the character Axel
>Oxenstjerna. I also find in the same source a character named "Gustav II
>Adolfs änka." Absent the tricky umlaut over the "a," that would be
>"Gustav II Adolf's duck." Some play!

Why a Duke?




Cheers,
David