re. Ballspiel in der Unterwelt

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

"Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de> schrieb:

> >
> > I know  a few Europeans who have read Underworld
> > and they did *not* like it. It was too American.
> > It truly is a very American novel (not
> > necessarily "The GAN"), and much of it is very
> > New York.  It goes from a famous baseball game to
> > massive consumerism and Cold War paranoia with
> > Lenny Bruce and J. Edgar Hoover and the Texas
> > Highway Killer and all sorts of good
> > old-fashioned Amerikan things. I think it's hard
> > for non-Americans (or even Americans under age
> > 40) to connect with (if you will).
> >
> > Bekah
> >


> Please note exceptions. I liked it. But I admit that I prefer "Running Dog"
> and "Libra."
 
> What Europeans of course cannot fully apprehend is the baseball game, the
> "national" American game. Isn't there a habit that the president or some
> other celebrity throws the first ball?
> 


Now, Jody once promised to explain to me the mathematical dimension 
of "Underworld"'s baseball beginning which, says Jody, gives a key to
the whole thing. I understand that baseball is somehow like Brennball
(still played at German schools), but me Fußball maniac 
(Super Werder, olé, olé ...) never found time to check out the details. 
I mean, Baseball appears so slow and mechanical (also: always interrupted),
it seems to lack the artistic elegance of 'Soccer'. (You know, I just threw 
away 21 American T-shirts and kept only the one from the Voodoo museum ...) 
Anyway, in my case Bekah's thesis is correct --

Still waiting for the math: Kai +