living german writers - Empfehlungen??

[Otto Sell]

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Eckhardt <uzs7lz at uni-bonn.de>
To: Christina L. Svendsen <cls4r at unix.mail.virginia.edu>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: living german writers - Empfehlungen??


<I don't read too much contemporary fiction in German.>
Who does? Ok, there are Thomas Brussig and Bernhard Schlink but I wonder if
these will be considered as "great literature" in, say thirty years.

<Try www.perlentaucher.de
> Thomas

Good site, Thomas. I went there and from that website there's only a small
step for a surfer but a giant step for virtual esoterics to
http://www.pinstruck.com/ - virtual voodoo:
You can curse someone virtually. I guess this could be useful for some of
"us" - oh I forgot it's not allowed to say "us" here.

Something different:
There are some other great links on www.perlentaucher.de - for example this
one to the WIRED-archives:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html - and this is
Pynchon-related insofar as is adds to his Luddite-essay and says something
about CONTROL (GR 165-66):

*Why the future doesn't need us:
Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering,
and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. (...)
it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that
case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his
own, such as his car or his personal computer, but control over large
systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite - just as it is
today, but with two differences. Due to improved techniques the elite will
have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer
be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system.
If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of
humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological
or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity
becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. Or, if the elite consists
of soft-hearted liberals, they may decide to play the role of good shepherds
to the rest of the human race."

"Life -don't talk to me about life." (Marvin, the paranoid android, at:
http://www.kodie.demon.co.uk/marvin.htm)

Otto