FR online review

[Dave Monroe]

--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> This said, I found the comparison between Pynchon's
> and Kleist's use of commas interesting....

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9707&msg=18580

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0011&msg=51011

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56509

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56586

"... in order ... that business communications be
accelerated and multiplied at least within the
boundaries of the civilized world, we propose a
projectile or cannonball express: an institution that,
with suitably situated artillery stations placed
within firing range of each other, would discharge,
from mortars or howitzers, hollow shells, which have
been stuffed full not of powder, but letters and
packages, and which could very easily be observed in
flight, and wherever they might fall, short of some
morass, be retrieved ..."

--Heinrich von Kleist, "Useful Inventions: Project for
a Cannonball Postal System" (1810)

Cf. ...

"This is the new, and still most secret German bomb.
   "'Incoming Mail.'" (GR, Pt. I, p. 6)

"... an now Pirate knows where this morning's rocket
landed, and why there was no explosion.  Incoming
mail, indeed."  (GR, Pt. I, p. 11)
 
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0101&msg=52671


 
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