Sex & the Swastika

[Henry Musikar]

Don't know much about history, but:

Was Geli Raubal evil? Was she any worse than Pokler or Katje? Sounds like 
she was about as good as it got for Hitler, just like Geli Tripping was as 
good as it got for Slothrop.

Again, I'm not suggesting that Geli T is much like Geli R; just an echo, in 
the valley.... A phantom image too faint for...

BTW, while Geli may derive from Anjelica, I'd like to think that rj is 
joking rather than arguing when he posits Anjelica Huston as in any way 
exemplarly of Geli being a common name. When you're wrong, you're wrong. Why 
do we need to argue so much? Why can't we all (all together now) just get 
along?

The double-your-fun of "Geli, Geli, Geli" said in a Cary Grant voice (how 
does that blues lyric go? taste stays on my mind?) is almost reason enough 
for the name. She's gotta be Geli, cuz Jamf don't shake like that.

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty" <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net>
>Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:11:45 -0500
>
>Not many Gelis that Pynchon might be referencing here I'll
>agree, but why this character? Clearly Tripping fits and she
>is angelic or good whitchy, but how is she associated with
>the mistress of evil incarnate? This is what is confusing.
>The sexual practices of Pudding and Katje may reference
>Hitler, but here again it doesn't make too much sense in
>terms of the novel's plot, characterization, even themes and
>how does Geli figure in?
>

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