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

[Dave Monroe]

I'm sure the Rilke/Thurn & Taxis connection has come
up here before, but ... 

Anyway, I pride myself on having the best bathroom
reading in the tristate area, amongst which is a ca.
1972 lives of the authors/artists/et al. published by
teh Atlantic or somesuch.  Flipping through, couldn't
help but spot the conjuction of Rilke, Thurn & Taxis,
Duino and Trieste, so ...

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> 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
> Duino Elgies.

And  ...

> 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"

http://www.uwekarsten.de/mediac/400_0/media/15~c.JPG

May also be one of the, uh, settings of at least the
opening pages of Claude Simon's Conducting Bodies ...


 
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