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[Vaska Tumir]

>From Sojourner:  [SNIP]
>Had a hard time finding this one.
>
>From: 
>http://www.bg.bib.de/~a2h6bu/dictionary/e_dic.html
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>Brüderschaft:   brotherhood, fraternity
>
>Is this the same CK?

Blutbrüderschaft: blood brotherhood.  Late Romantic [could be wrong there,
but can't think of any early Romantics waxing lyrical about it] German
concept [with all sorts of precedents].  In a certain "Blutbrüderschaft"
version, the breeding ground of the future Storm troops, as various youth
organizations of the 1920s went for a pretty bizarre mixture of pre-New-Age
male-bonding ultra-nationalistic heavy sublimation stuff.  No idea why
Pynchon should be using that particular term right there.  None whatsoever:
others might.  Lawrence, D.H., went for it the whole hog, of course, chasing
poor John Middleton Murry [Catherine Mansfield's husband], who wasn't all
that interested but had a hard time shooing D.H. off, and then turning Murry
into that horrid icy Gerald to get what revenge he could on him.  Antyhing
to do with Pynchon?  Guess not; hope it's just me free-associating, a.k.a.
mildly raving.

But maybe Heikki could actually enlighten us on this one further, as he
seems to know his German Romantics.

Vaska











>
>>"When I see this clear beautiful chair, and I think of England, even Jane
>>Austen's England--  
>
><rest unquoted for my undying love of brevity>
>
>I was reading Northanger Abbey recently (a JA novel) and it was
>filled with the female lead character apologizing for reading and
>enjoying novels.  Strange how her novels romanticize England
>and yet the art of novel writing (for either gender) was considered
>for a long time to be quite a base and common practice.
>
>Didn't B. Franklin hide his name for the same reason in his
>early writings?
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>	"Feel free to sleep on 'em!
>	 Feel free to throw em in the garbage!
>	 Feel free to back your car over 'em!
>	 You can even squish 'em with a huge book!"
>
>	    --Flexon Frames commercial (circa 1997)
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