Sex & the Swastika

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

Indeed, it seems almost a libel to pair Geli Tripping with Geli Raubal
in this way, doesn't it?  "Forgive the special pleading," but doesn't
Geli Tripping seem to be one of the healthiest, positive and even most
wholesome figures in GR?

Mark

--- Robert Pirani <rpirani at best.com> wrote:
> >I don't know when  the OSS study of Hitler was first made
> >public, or if this sort of speculation about Hitler was broadly
> circulated
> >in the 60s when TRP was writing GR -- but it would seem to add
> another
> >dimension to TRP's portrayal of Pudding's fetish, 
> 
> Ron Rosenbaum in Explaining Hitler makes a related point :
> 	"...the dark, hidden truth about Hitler's psyche. It's been picked
> up and
> mythologized in the fictions of Thomas Pynchon (his Geli-like figure
> in
> Gravity's Rainbow)..." 
> but whether it is Geli T. or Katje here that Rosenbaum is referring
> to in
> GR isn't really clear in fact it sounds like it could be based on
> something
> he heard about the book.
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
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