SLSL Intro "Baedeker"

[Dave Monroe]

"It wasn't till 'Under the Rose' (1959) that I coudl
bring myself, even indirectly, to credit guidebook
eponym Karl Baedeker, whose guide to Egypt for 1899
was the major 'source' for the story.
   "I spotted this book in the Cornell Co-op.... 
Could I, even as I laid down cash for it as the cash
register, have been subconsciously planning to loot
this faded red volume for the contents of a story?
   "Could Willy Sutton rob a safe?  Loot the Baedeker
I did, all the details of a time and place I had never
been to, right down to the names of the diplomatic
corps.  Who's make up a name like
Khevenhüller-Metsch?" (SL, "Intro," p. 17)


Karl Baedeker

1801–59, German publisher, founder of the Baedeker
guidebooks. His printing establishment was at Koblenz,
but his son Fritz, who continued the business, moved
it to Leipzig. Printed in several languages, the
guidebooks provided valuable historical information
and ran into many editions, especially for European
countries. Although the firm’s files were destroyed
during World War II, the business was revived after
the war by a great-grandson of Baedeker. In 1950 the
firm began publishing automobile touring guides.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ba/Baedeker.html

Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859)
64; the first Baedeker guidebook was published in
1839; Baedeker land, 70, 71; 74; 78; 89; Visitor's
Guide, 159; 190; distrust of "South" 229 ("soiled
South" - 75); Karl Baedeker of Leipzig, 408; 475;
pencil-sharpener salesman who had seen every territory
in the country and could give you interesting
information on any city," 35

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/b.html


"guidebook eponym"

http://www.baedeker.com/

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/resources.html#baedeker


"this faded red volume"

http://www.baedeker.com/bookdetail.php3?bookid=2&continent=Afrika&csegment=1&layer=country

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3875045017/qid%3D1037502695/028-6055821-9842147


Willy Sutton

Q.: "Why do you rob banks?"
A.: "Because that's where the money is." 

http://www.sunnysidechamber.org/OldDays/willyquestioned.html

http://www.sunnysidechamber.org/OldDays/Willyarraigned.html

And, what the heck ...

http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=393

http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/columns/rt031201.shtml


Khevenhüller-Metsch

   "Count Khevenhüller-Metsch the Austrian Consul had
been spending much time in the company of his Russian
counterpart, M. de Villiers." (V., Ch. 3, p. 68)

And see as well ...

"The members of this family bear the title Graf/Gräfin
von Khevenhüller-Metsch."

http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/khevenhuller.html 

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