Robert Musil and Vineland

[Otto Sell]

> <<I've a question for our Austrian or German-reading brethren.
>
> In Vineland Pynchon has a movie titled The Robert Musil Story starring
> PeeWee Herman.
>
> This Robert Musil, he's the author of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften and
> others, yes? How, if at all, is he connected to either Pynchon's world
> view or Vineland?>>
>
> This is what is called a "joke."  "Joke."  From the Latin jokus.  "Joke."
To
> provoke humor.  "Joke."
>
> In a sentence:  "Pynchon is making a joke."
>
> See also jest; gag.
>

This list could be the reason for buying an English edition of "The Man
Without Qualities" - there are so many questions I have about that wonderful
book with such a wonderful binary opening . . .

Otto