NP Kristallnacht

[Dave Monroe]

"Crystal palace" is, like all those "crystals" there,
like that entire "dream" (if it is a dream ...)
multivalent here indeed ... deja vu ...

--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> 
> "Kristallnacht" of course originates from the sound
> of broken glass, the
> breaking windows of Jewish shops in Germany. I'm not
> sure if Pynchon had
> that in mind when he was referring to the Crystal
> Palace in London, as
> Weisenburger says in his Companion.
> Or isn't he reffering to that historical building at
> all, it's not written
> in capitals?
> 
> Otto
> 
> > > 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 ..."

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