Could Pynchon know him?

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The subject "Vienna at 1900" reminds me at a very strange novel written by a 
very strange K. u. K.-monarchy author called Herzmanovsky-Orlando, 
"Gaulschreck im Rosennetz". I read it as a teenager. The story is about a man 
who wants to make his emperor a gift because of the Emperor's 35th 
anniversary of his enthronement. The gift is the number 35 formed by 35 milk 
teeth. The man has already 34 milk teeth, and the story is about the 
"hunting" for the 35th tooth, and it must be the tooth of a virgine. The 
whole thing is of course an absolute disaster, and at last the man makes 
suicide by shooting a milk tooth into his head. 
Thinking of the Psychodentist and other dentists in P's work, could P know 
the novel? 

Kurt-Werner Pörtner