GRGR(14) 'notes' & queries #3

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

JL (- whose thoughtful remarks need no excuse) schrieb:


>  Stollen 41 is starting to sound like Highway 61.

 Counted together, 41 is 5: - the number of Gevurah, the number of Mars.


> 309.11 : ' Glimpf '
>  Mean anything to you?

   Reminds me of the German word "glimpflich" (= "lenient")


> 310.5ff : ' soft clang and sharp Himmel '
>  Does 'clang' have a German interpretation that lends meaning
>  to this?

   Well, clang is "Klang", pretty much the same. "Himmel" is here the short form 
   of "Gütiger Himmel!" (- about "Kind-hearted Heaven!"), a phrase used to 
   express astonishment. Note also that in German "Himmel" means both, - heaven 
   & sky. "Sky fits Heaven, so fly it ...".   


> 314.11 : ' windows of a bathysphere '
>  30s invention of Charles William Beebe which enabled
>  the discovery of some strange worlds.  I've lost the
>  details along with my hard disk but someone earlier in
>  GRGR spoke of the contemporary impact of a National
>  Geographic (I think) feature on the bizarre creatures
>  of ze deep.  Thomas Mann was mentioned as one who used
>  the story as source.

    Right. For the submarine episode in his "Doktor Faustus".
                                                                         KFL