VLVL The Pisk Sisters--JAPs?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, davemarc wrote:

> Danish is a breakfast pastry readily found in New York City, where it is
> enjoyed by people of all economic classes. It's probably more available in
> NYC than in most other parts of the world.


Danish is, not surprisingly, a very common pastry in Denmark and
other Nordic countries too. Devoured usually with coffee at any
time of the day - the Scandinavians are the heaviest coffee
drinkers in the world.

Only that the Danes themselves call it "wienerbroed"... and it is
what equals "Viennese bread" in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish too.
We would never associate "wieners" with little sausages up here.

We must've skipped the issue when awaiting that number nine line
subway at Times Square way back when, haven't we, David?

Best,
Heikki

P.S. Talking of Vienna, been reading David Luft's admirable
_Robert Musil and the Crisis of European Culture 1880-1942_. On the
page 203 he writes as follows: "Shortly after the war [WWI], Musil
was working with material for seven novels, and a different sort of
novelist would have found fulfillment in writing and publishing all
of them. He kept shifting and reforming material to find the structure
he needed. Eventually, all of his conceptions, except the experimental
moral-satiric novels of science fiction, found their way in
_The Man without Qualities_ in some form."

I've never heard of Musil's science fiction plans before - anyone?
(I spent the lunch hour at the Univ Library skimming thru RM's
Gesammelte Werke 1-9 but could not find anything.)

I do recall somebody (was it you, Kurt-Werner?) rightly insisting on
the p-list that Musil relates to Pynchon intensely.


your humble TMwQ fan,
HR