mortality and mercy in vienna and elsewhere

[umberto rossi]

I have read the Pynchon story I didn't know anything about and would 
like to know more (obviously there are question that shall remain 
unanswered such as why didn't he include it in Slow Learner, though I 
suppose that the party setting might make it a double of Entropy). 
Anyway what struck me was the references to Eliot, or better the 
quotation of texts by other writers quoted in the Waste Land, the 
"Mon semblable" phrase which is Baudelaire quoted at the end of The 
Burial of the Dead, the "Mistah Kurtz--he dead" epigraph (but that is 
in the Hollow Men) the Lupescu character which belongs to the WL (you 
might imagine him at the Metropole with Mr Eugenides, the Smyrna 
Merchant), then Eliot is overtly mentioned with Guaguin and Grossman 
as example of the Going-Native syndrome, no to mention the Kurtz 
passage at the end, of course it's Conrad but there's plenty of 
Conrad in the WL and there would be more hadn't Pound edited it out.

Remarkable. But--how old was he when he wrote that?

umberto rossi
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