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                               Announcements

                           Into the Zone Tour 2000

     Sunday, 18th of June: "Into the Zone"

     Transfer to Nordhausen hotel "Sonne" in a hired coach. We plan to
     pick up participants from abroad/overseas at Frankfurt airport. The
     ride into the Zone will take us some 4 or 5 hours.

     The hotel at Nordhausen will be the "Sonne". Prices: 65 DM (single
     room), 100 DM (double room). Please book the rooms yourself either
     by e-mail (Sonne-NDH at t-online.de) or telephone (03631/998938). The
     'codeword' is, of course, "Pynchon".

     Monday, 19th of June: "Nordhausen in the morning: the lea is a
     green salad, crisp with raindrops"

     Visit to the Mittelwerke near Nordhausen. Guided tour (in English)
     through the adjacent concentration-camp "Dora" and the underground
     factory.

     In the afternoon: "on top of the Brocken, the very plexus of German
     evil, twenty miles north by northwest of the Mittelwerke". Trip
     from Nordhausen to the Brocken summit in the "Harzquerbahn", the
     overground equivalent of Slothrop and Glimpf's miniature train that
     "used to show visitors ... around the factory".

     Dep. 16.30 p.m. Drei Annen Hohne, Arr. 17.20 p.m. The descent: Dep.
     18.15 p.m., Arr.19.00 p.m. Drei Annen Hohne. Fares: 42,- DM plus
     3,- for seat reservation.

     Tuesday, 20th of June: "Mickey Rooney stares at Rocketman"

     In the morning: hotel check out, then ride to the HFF filmstudios
     in Babelsberg near Berlin, "where there is a movie going on ... a
     really documentary and V-2ish film by Robert Bramkamp". The
     director will show his documentary strip on the Rocket (with some
     20% of Gravity's Rainbow adaptation in it ...).

     Late afternoon: Ride to Greifswald near the Baltic Sea. Check-in at
     the Hotel am Dom. Single Rooms ~90 DM, double rooms ~120 DM. Again,
     please book the rooms yourself by telephone or fax (tel.:
     03834/79750; fax: 03834/797511). The 'codeword' is, again,
     "Pynchon".

     Wednesday, 21st of June: "... no ...it was in Greifswald."

     Workshop at Greifswald University. General topic: "In the openness
     of the zone our hope is limitless" Geography in Gravity's Rainbow.

     We welcome participants to read (short) papers. We also welcome
     abstracts just to 'be prepared'. Please get in contact with Bruno
     Friedrich Arich-Gerz, Luc Herman, or Dirk Vanderbeke.

     Thursday, 22nd of June: "Frau Gnahb brings her boat around in a
     tight turn, through an inlet, to the dock"

     Coach ride to Sellin on the island of Ruegen; boat trip on board
     the "MS Marco Polo" from Sellin to Peenemuende harbour.

     Dep. Sellin: 9.30 a.m.; Arr. Peenemuende: 12 a.m. Fare: 20,- DM
     (approximately) per person.

     Visit of the Holy Grail's museum (Historisch-technisches
     Informationszentrum). Return to Greifswald by coach.

     Entrance fee: 10,- DM approximately.

     (optional:)

     Friday, 23rd of June: "To Cuxhaven, the summer in deceleration,
     floating on to Cuxhaven"

     Ride westward, along the sea coast to Cuxhaven and Dorum, the
     Operation Backfire site. Then back to Hamburg, next day ride south,
     to Frankfurt airport.

     Additional fees and costs will include the coach. The expenses for
     the vehicle could amount to +/- 400,- DM, depending on the number
     of participants. At present, we are negotiating with various coach
     agencies for more "stomachable" prices. As an alternative, we might
     hire vans, drive ourselves, and save money: +/- 200 deutschmarks
     p.p. For travelling comfort, we would prefer the coach, but in case
     we are fewer than 20 persons, we will "van-ish". So please make a
     binding commitment to us by 15 April.

     Recommended deadline for hotel reservations, 30 April; the hotels
     will close their lists in May.

     Contacts:

     Bruno Friedrich Arich-Gerz (arich2gerz at planet-interkom.de)

     Luc Herman (Luc.Herman at uia.ua.ac.be)

     Dirk Vanderbeke (vanderbeke at t-online.de)
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