NP Kristallnacht

[Dave Monroe]

You know, based on Jeremy's translation, this is not
entirely unreminiscent of the opening of a certain
novel: "A screaming comes across the sky. It has
happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to
now"; "You didn't really believe you'd be saved. Come,
we all know who we are by now. No one was ever going
to take the trouble to save you, old fellow" ... 

Not to mention all those crystals: "the fall of a
crystal palace"; "Underfoot crunches the oldest of
city dirt, last crystallizations of all the city had
denied, threatened, lied to its children"; "The great
power station, and the gasworks beyond, stand
precisely: crystals grown in morning's beaker";
"around the curve of the Earth, farther east, the sun
over there, just risen over in Holland, is striking
the rocket's exhaust, drops and crystals, making them
blaze clear across the sea ..."  

http://www.bap-fan.de/kristallnaach.html

These actually scan as song lyrics? I figured this was
some sort of industrial band until I backed up on the
website here ...

http://www.bap-fan.de/images/pratteln3.JPG

Do thes lyrics come from elsewhere?  Are there
references being made to earlier works?  Perhaps
possible Pynchonian intertexts?  Let me know ...

--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:

> Et kütt vüür, dat ich mein, dat jet klirrt, dat sich
> irjendjet en mich verirrt, e Jeräusch, nit ens laut,
> manchmol klirrt es vertraut, selden su, dat mer't
> direk durchschaut. 

> Un dann rettet kein Kavallerie, keine Zorro kömmert
> sich dodrömm. Dä piss höchstens e "Z" en der Schnie
> un fällt lallend vüür Lässigkeit öm: "Na un? -
> Kristallnaach!" 



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