V.V. (12) Re: N(othin but m'man)P

[jbor]

And this:

      . . . so much rot spoken about their inferior kultur-position
    and our herrenschaft -- but that was for the Kaiser and the businessmen
    at home; no one, not even our gay Lothario (as we called the General),
    believed it out here. They may have been as civilized as we, I'm not an
    anthropologist, you can't compare anyway -- they were an agricultural,
    pastoral people. They loved their cattle as we perhaps love toys from
    childhood, Under Leutwein's administration the cattle were taken away
    and given to white settlers. Of course the Hereros revolted, though the
    Bondelswaartz Hottentots actually started it because their chief Abraham
    Christian had been shot in Warmbad. No one is sure who fired first. It's
    an old dispute: who knows, who cares? The flint had been struck, and we
    were needed, and we came.
      Foppl. Perhaps.
                    (255)

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>From: calbert at tiac.net
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: N(othin but m'man)P
>Date: Fri, Apr 27, 2001, 7:18 AM
>

>
> "Die lood van die Goevernement indeed. We are, perhaps, the lead
> weights of a fantastic clock, necessary to keep it in motion, to keep
> an ordered sense of history and time prevailing against the chaos.
> Very well! Let a few of them melt. Let the clock tell false time for a
> while. But the weights will be reforged, and rehung, and if there
> doesn't happen to be one there in the shape or name of Willem van
> Wijk to make it run again, so much the worse for me."
>
> (V , Pg. 233, Perennial/ Harper&Row)