Sex & the Swastika

[rj]

More from DeLillo's *Running Dog*:

    ".  ... He wasn't impotent you know, despite earlier claims to that
effect."
    "Hitler you mean."
    "He had a remarkable impact on women. They sent him love letters,
sex poems, underwear. His motorcades, women hurled their bodies at his
car. Like a pop hero. Some modern rock 'n' roller. Women threw
themselves beneath the wheels."
    [....]
    "Girls were constantly offering to yield their virginity to him. We
see his speeches, where women fell into states of hysteria. We see
collective frenzy. He had hypnotic powers over women. I think this is
clear."
    [....]
    " ... We know about great men and their public and private selves."
    "Very furtive mind. Many doors locked. Hints, whispers of unnatural
sexuality. Hush-hush even today. Women associated with Hitler tended to
commit suicide or at least to attempt it. After his death women all over
Germany killed themselves. Suicides unnumbered." (148-9)


and


    Moll took a cab to the magazine's West Side office, where her own
cubicle was located. She went to work reediting a pice written by a
professor of Eastern European studies. He asserted that Russian
parapsychologists, at the prodding of the KGB, were close to perfecting
a system of assassination by mental telepathy. Moll, actually, didn't
doubt it .... (133)


re Geli. Gotta say I like Heikki's earth mother (and even Anjelica
Huston!) as a better resonance than either the Israeli spoon bender or
one of the Pirates of Penzance, but, hey, everyone's gotta product to
sell, any which ways they can, haven't they now ... 

best