Sex & the Swastika
Jeremy Osner
jeremy at xyris.com
Tue Jan 11 08:27:10 CST 2000
Doug Millison wrote:
> After all, if he used the name Geli for the
> character who does what Katje does for Pudding (and what, it appears, Geli
> Raubal did for Hitler), it would hardly be fiction any more, and he'd lose
> the ambiguity of wondering which real world folks "Pudding" might allude
> to.
Perhaps, also, he wanted to keep the word play of "Geli" = "gaily", which
wouldn't really fit in with Katje's character but does fit nicely with Geli
Tripping's character.
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