VLVL2 (15): The Robert Musil Story

[Dave Monroe]

Oh, hey ...

--- cfalbert <calbert at hslboxmaster.com> wrote:
>
> Musil was also a physicist of some note. I believe
> he is credited with "inventing" the color wheel.

Huh?  Philosophy, psychology, but physics?  Can't
finmd a quick determination on this, but ...
 
> The only thing I clearly recall from my struggle
> with MWOQ is Musil proposing that athletic prowess
> was a form of "spontaneous genius"....

But here ...
 
> Cannot think of an OBVIOUS link to Pee-Wee,
> however... it may be limited to juxtaposing, again,
> the serious (to the point of ponderous) with the 
> ridiculous....I would add that Ruebens (Pee-Wee) was
> a top ranking scholar in high school, a fact
> unlikely to be known by TRP ...

Well, just unlikely-to-outright wacky juxtapositions
in general, maybe.  Cf. John Ritter in The Bryant
Gumbel Story or whatever.  Then again, there may be
some kind of private joke there as well.  But ...

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jikje/Prenten/musil-back.jpg

http://www.mugshots.net/pee_wee_herman/pee_wee_herman.jpg

Or, rather ...

http://www.amarillonet.com/images/headlines/022503/people2.jpg

... they're not exactly UNalike in appearance, either.
 And tehre IS a sens in which Paul Reubens (vs. Pee
Wee Herman), as an actor (vs. a particular role), is
indeed "a man without qualities" ...


	
		
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