Could Pynchon know him?

[Jerky]

This is interesting...

In his virtual-reality film ExistenZ, David Cronenberg showed us a bio-gun 
that shoots teeth for bullets. It is a very striking image, one that has 
stuck with me since first seeing the film a couple years ago.

Is it possible this provincial, Toronto-born-and-raised auteur got the idea 
from an obscure German novel?

Has this thing ever been translated into English?

Just wondering,
Jerky

At 04:30 AM 7/11/01 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>