AtDTDA : 12 "My Native land is not a country" #2, 326

[Richard Fiero]

robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
>Again, consider the regional boundaries in this passage of Tesla's:
>
>           "My native land is not a country but an artifact of
>           Habsburg foreign policy, known as 'the Military
>           Frontier,' and to us as Granitza. The town was
>           very small, above the Adriatic coast in the
>           Velebit range, where certain places were better
>           than others for . . . what would you call them?
>           Visual experiences that might prove useful."
>
>Pynchon's notions concerning regional/national boundaries are 
>central to GR (the
>"Zone", after all. is a temporary region of Anarchy), M & D and AtD. 
>And Trieste
>is an exemplar of that sort of stateless floating world:
. . .
Tesla's later years have been traditionally described as unbalanced 
and obsessive and the result of emotional appeasement for the early 
death of his brother.  I don't think the author is in this case 
instructing us in geopolitics. "Visual experiences"? That's Tesla.