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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