GRGR 31 Shit'n'Shinola

[jbor]

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>From: KXX4493553 at aol.com

> I would agree with your interpretation. I re-read the passage in my German
> edition (p. 1077). The world "Schein-Aula" doesn't exist in German. It's an
> artificial word. "Schein" (seeming) is the opposite of the "real", something
> that does only exist in our imagination. "Schein" also means betrayal,
> deceiving. The "Schein-Aula" is a "Luftschloss", a "Wolkenkuckucksheim" as we
> say in German, a "castle in the air" built by Albert Speer.


Thanks for your response. The other interesting thing in this particular
fragment is how the (non-)meeting between ("Red") Malcolm X and JFK Jr at
Roseland echoes that fictional (non-)meeting between Enzian and Tchitcherine
("the Red Doper" 719.9), Slothrop and Geli respectively as the Oneirinic
intercessionists:

     Certainly not the first time a man has passed his brother by, at the
     edge of evening, often forever, without knowing it. (735)

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