VLVL(7):Annotations, questions, etc, etc. Pt.1

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Wed Jan 6 15:30:32 CST 1999


> 
> 221.28:  "Der Tag":  Ger., "light," "day" (?)

Didn't it have a specific ominious meaning in the years of Hitler's rise?
Maybe it was the day Germany would get its lebensraum. Don't remember 
exactly.


> 
> 225.15:  "Don't Get Around Much Anymore":  
> 
> Nat King Cole (?)	
> 

Sounds like it should be Duke Ellington.
 > 
>  http://www.cadillacclub.se/clubcars/67fleet.html
> 
> 227.16-9:  "the Doc had been authorized 
 hinted at":  This passage is 
> reminiscent of K's treatment in Kafka's _The Trial _.
> 
> 228.21:  "Ilse":  I seem to recall an Ilse from _The Trial _, but 
> couldn't find her.  Am I imagining things?

There was a Leni. Perhaps one of the depraved little girls at the
artist's studio was IIse. Ilse was the one who said "Play 'As Time Goes
by.'"

 
Good notes, Keith.

			P.




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