Atd : page 542---starts on page 524.Big Ass Spoiler

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Dear Dave;
Great links. I was turned on to Rilke on account of "Gravity's Rainbow", 
and the poem has become my favorite. Obviously it left a deep impact 
upon Pynchon and the notion of revelation=terror found just about 
everywhere in Pynchon is clearly echoed in the Dunio Elgies.

I'm halfway through yet another reading of "The Crying 
of Lot 49", looking for key words and phrases. The link I'm seeing---
been seeing it for some time, but the connection is getting clearer----
is in calling down or summoning angels and attendant 
revelation/apocalypse. Throughout "49" you find the word 
'revelation' as in (pg 31) "As if (as she'd guessed that first minute in
 San Narcisco) there were revelation in progress all around her.", or 
(pg. 14) "There'd seemed no limit to what the printed circuit could 
have told her (if she had tried to find out); so in her first minute of 
San Narcisco, a revelation also trembled just past the threshold of 
her understanding.". There's  dozens of others. 

By the way, found this as well, on page 144 of my copy (1999 "First
 perennial Classics edition"):

""Oedipa knew them by heart. In the 15 (cent) dark green from the 
1893 Columbian Exposition Issue ("Columbus Announcing His 
Discovery"), the faces of the three courtiers, reciving the news at the
 right-hand side of the stamp, had been subtly altered to express 
uncontrollable fright"

Thanks,
Robin

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> Between October 1911 and May 1912, Rilke stayed at the
> Castle Duino, near Trieste, home of Countess Marie of
> Thurn and Taxis. There, in 1912, he began the poem
> cycle called the Duino Elegies, which would remain
> unfinished for a decade due to a long-lasting
> creativity crisis.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke
> 
> ... around the 20th or 21st of January 1912 ... Rilke
> visited the princess Marie von Thurn und
> Taxis-Hohenlohe at the castle Duino just outside
> Trieste. He was in a crisis and even considered
> psychoanalytical treatment. However, during a walk
> alongside the cliffs, sloping some 200 feet down to
> the sea, words suddenly came to him: "Wer, wenn ich
> schriee, höre mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?"
> Rilke was actually contemplating his bookkeeping at
> the time, and he knew immediately that this impulse
> was the beginning of something remarkable. He took
> notes of the words, and during the rest of his stay at
> Duino, Rilke wrote the beginnings of most of his ten
> elegies.
> 
> http://art-bin.com/art/oduinocontents.html
> 
> Planted firmly on the last rock spur of the Carso high
> above the Gulf of Trieste, hard by the clifftop path
> named after the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Castle
> is not just another austere stately home.  An unusual
> case in Italy, and far more interesting, it is the
> living - even vibrant - residence of the princely
> family of Torre e Tasso....
> 
> http://www.castellodiduino.it/en-lastoria.htm
> 
> The Rilke promenade, a path of exceptional and
> evocative beauty, has been named after the poet Reiner
> Maria Rilke, who wrote his Elegies to Duino during his
> long staying in the castle. The new castle of Duino is
> uncertainly dated about the year 1400, when the family
> Wallsee commanded the construction of a strong war
> building. Later on the Wallsee disappeared and the
> castle, after having been used as a prison for a
> while, became the abode of the Luogar and Hofer. Only
> about the end of 800 it became property of the Princes
> Thurn und Taxis.....
> 
> http://www.ts.camcom.it/ENGLISH/laprovincia/duino_aurisina.htm
> 
> The visitors of the Trieste Riviera in the coast
> between Duino and Sistiana, are offered the
> opportunity to stroll along a path which is unique in
> all the Mediterranean coast: the «Rilke Promenade».
> It is named after the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, from
> Prague, who stayed in the Duino Castle from 1911 to
> 1912, guest of the Princes della Torre e Tasso:
> according to tradition, it was along this path that
> Rilke found inspiration for his Duino Elegies....
> 
> http://www.ts.camcom.it/ENGLISH/laprovincia/sentierorilke.htm
> 
> --- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > ... philatalic concerns in "Against the Day".
> 
> 
>  
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