MDDM18: German

[Dave Monroe]

As that was actually my question, thanks.  I had a few
inklings stirring when I posted that, but ...

--- Nika Bertram <ame16 at uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > "There, over the Evening, he will find, among the
> > Clientele, German Enthusiasts ..." (M&D, Ch. 30,
> > p. 298)
> > 
> > But what IS the deal with "German" here?
> 
> did a bit of google-ing here, and came up with that:
> (from 
>
http://kajaklib.kajak.fi/opetusmateriaalit/HeiJuk/TLP/TEMPS/UKKOJA.HTM)
> 
> Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian, von
> (23.3.1912- ), saks.-am. raketti-ins.
> HENKILÖKUVIA:
> "[1122] BRAUN, Wernher Magnus Maximilian, von,
> German-American rocket engineer ...

And something along these lines was one of them. 
"German" seems of particular currency in that
Pynchonian Symbolic Economy (PSE), no?  Reminds me ...

Koshar, Rudy.  German Travel Cultures.
   New York: Berg, 2000.

A friend at UW-Madison had a class with him, figured
I'd be interested ... but think also, from the
electronics enthusiasts at The Scope to the magnetic
ones at The Flower-de-Luce (or, along another
chronology, vice versa), from the electric displays of
Ch. 29 to the magnetic speculations of Ch. 30, well
... well, again, what's up with that "German" here, is
all.  Also ...




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