Nazi ideology

[Coffey, Mitchell R]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Won [mailto:wonk at ohsu.edu]
>Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 5:22 PM
>To: spen at fictiondepartment.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Nazi ideology

>>>> Spencer Thiel <spen at fictiondepartment.com> 06/05 2:09 PM
>>>> At 03:35 PM 6/5/00 -0500, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>>Americans are good at logistical planning because they are used 
>>to operating far from home which the Allies certainly had to do in 
>>Europe and even more so in the Pacific.
>
>>It certainly helps that the war machine was in place long before the 
>>Americans entered WWI and WWII.
>
>peace,
>
>
>The Germans had a fairly considerable war machine in place 
>before they started the whole thing in the first place, remember.
>
>kevin

Indeed.  On of Pynchon's delightful walk-on characters in M&D is a
woman who, disguised as a man, had fought in a European army.  
Having witnessed the new Prussian war machine first hand, she now
dedicated her life to a traveling, one-woman show warning the world
of the coming menace!


Mitchell Coffey
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Slim Pickins rode the bomb down laughing
Bucking to oblivion
In gravity's rainbow rodeo

 - Found anonymously felt-penned onto a wall
   in the Bancroft Library on the UC Berkeley
   campus, c. 1977