Sex & the Swastika

rj rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au
Tue Jan 11 14:16:11 CST 2000


Henry Musikar wrote:
> 
> You must be right. Geli Raubal prolly never crossed Pynch's knowledgable
> mind. A-& think of all the other (even slightly) famous Gelis in history.
> Why theres...

* Anjelica Huston
* Roger and Angelica, of the famed story by some French guy (or is it
Biblical or Greek mythic?) Anyway, there's a gorgeous Ingres painting at
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/ingres/p-ingres24.htm
from
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/ingres/ingres2.htm
or a portrait study of the fabled Geli herself at
http://theartcanvas.com/ingres.slave119.htm
from
http://theartcanvas.com/ingres.htm
* And surely there's a Saint Angelica somewhere along the way
* I had a friend at school named Angelica (though she copped a lot of
An-garlick-a, used it herself in fact, in that terrible innocent/racist
way of juvenile minds) but I guess she's not famous so doesn't count
* What Heikki sed

If the reading works for you then that's fine. For me it's another one
of those supposed "connections" that doesn't go anywhere. A quick glance
at a search engine shows me that it's just not that unusual a name,
particularly among German girls.:

http://www.gelis-gallery.de/link_en.html
http://home.talkcity.com/Promenade/geli/
http://www-mit.mit.edu/mbarker/www/bio/wisc980305.txt
http://jean.nu/travel/Europe:1998/

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