Rocketoid bomb shelters

[Robert Mahnke]

Dragon's teeth are rather smaller.  They're concrete obstacles a few feet
high, designed to impede tanks and other vehicles.  Wikipedia has additional
explanation, and a few pictures:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_teeth_%28fortification%29

If you do a Google image search for the term, you'll find more photos.  Some
may be larger than a man -- the scale can be hard to gauge -- but I would
tend to doubt that they'd need to be that large.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Tore Rye Andersen
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:38 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Cc: monte.davis at verizon.net
Subject: RE: Rocketoid bomb shelters 

Monte linked to these strange structures:

http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/05/strange-towers-of-third-reich.ht
ml

Wonderful! Thanks, Monte - I especially liked the image of a tower partly 
covered in vines. It reminded me of this snippet from the beginning of part 
3 of GR:

"They found the countryside, this year, at peace by a scant few days. 
Already vines are beginning to grow back over dragon's teeth, fallen Stukas,

burned tanks." (GR, 281)

What are those weird towers, if not dragon's teeth?

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