"crystal palace" (WAS: NP Krystalnacht)

[calbert at tiac.net]

> Germans and your Love for Capital Letters.  :)  I take it as a
> reference to the ideas embodied/promoted by the Great Exhibition --
> knowledge, commerce, and empire coming together in glorious
> transparency.  The term "crystal palace" as a concept (not a building)
> appears in the literature of the Victorian era; Dostoyevsky used it in
> a few of his novels.

The one Dostoevsky refers to is likely the one built for Catherine in 
ice......



love,
cfa