GRGR(14) Ölsch's architecture (long, prolix)

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Jeremy Ludlow wrote:
> 
> Buildings (and food)
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> {a nod here to the German listers, to whom this may
> seem a gross simplification.  This isn't supposed
> to be a history lesson - just me thinking aloud, so
> all corrections and amplifications gratefully received.
> Ditto to the architects present}
> 
> Crucial, it seems to me, to the Nazis' rise to
> power was the appropriation of traditional cultural
> imagery.  It gave them a handle on the psyche of
> the Volk, and in particular allowed them to
> substantiate their claims for Destiny by treating
> folk myth as Scripture.
> This was Nationalism through Populism, or vice-versa
> I suppose.
> 
> And you might argue that Pynchon accepts the validity
> of this approach merely through his use of the same
> motifs for his own metaphorical ends.  In describing
> the process he perpetuates it (or am I not being
> postmodern enough here?).
> 

I don't know. What is the argument that might be made?