grgr (28): cosmic windmill mandala (--- "graphicity" in pynchon's prose)]

[Stansamsuz at aol.com]

Hello All.
    
    I don't know if this is worth throwing in, but in Los Angeles in the 
early '60's my schoolmates and I noticed a swastika at the center of the Van 
de Kamp bakeries'  windmill-shaped cookies. It was formed by the intersecting 
lines from the wings of the windmill, quite destinct on the packaging and in 
the molded cookie as well.We used to imagine all sorts of  sinister reasons 
why these cookies had this emblem at its center (spies, microfilm - you get 
the picture). The cookies themselves were excellent however.

Regards,        

Stanley