Xenophobic or Homophobic? Blicero a Badass? Nope

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In einer eMail vom 21.03.01 03:04:14 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt 
lycidas2 at earthlink.net:

> As Khachig
>      Tololyan points out, too, Enzian was the name of an
>  anti-aircraft rocket which
>      German military scientists worked on but did not
>  complete before the war
>      ended (41). The flower, then, is an emblem of the
>  routinized, labyrinthine
>      "structures favoring death" that the novel protests, of
>  which Blicero is first
>      patriarch.
>  
"Blau, blau, blau blüht der Enzian,
wenn die Alpen glüh'n
und wir uns wiederseh'n"

"Blue blue blue the enzian is flowering
when the Alpes are glooming
and we see us again"

Heino, German crooner, albino, always wearing sun-glasses, his songs are 
useful for soldiers who are marching, he also sang the Deutschlandlied with 
the first strophe:
"Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles, über alles in der Welt..."
- pardon me, just an association/intuition.



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