GRGR(28) willst du V-2 dann arbeite

[Otto Sell]

If you simply do your job how you have been ordered you can do no wrong.
According to the narrator the second slogan is a joke on Goebbels who had
changed the name of the A4 into V2 for "motivation" reasons. But it makes
sense.Why "A4" when the people had only seen the buzzbomb (V-1) and the
rocket (V-2). The nazis had promised more wunderwaffen for the endsieg, and
if the war had lasted longer and they´d had more resources you can be sure
they would have come up with an middle-range rockets (V-3) or an ICBM on Los
Angeles (V-4).  . . .

Otto
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o.sell at telda.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com>
To: p-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 4:43 PM
Subject: GRGR(28) willst du V-2 dann arbeite


> What is the joke of the bathroom wall? Is it a play on "arbeit macht
> frei"? -- I don't really see what V-2 would be a pun on -- and why
> "V-4"? Is the writer of these sentences assuming the reader will read
> "vee two" and "vee four", or "fau zwei" and "fau vier"?
>
> Jeremy
>