A Reviewer's Hunch--Wings of Desire--Rilke's Angels--Angels of Lubeck

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Wings of Desire is among my favourite movies--Both Wim Wenders and 
Pynchon "know" Rilke's Angels.

As to whether Pynchon "believes" in Angels and the Angel of Lubeck--We 
know he knows the  " Brockengespenst"  'Spectre of Brocken"  GR 330:29-- 
most famous in the Hartz Mountains -- I've seen these (made them) in the 
cloud banks off the ridges of the Olympic Mountains.       
http://tinyurl.com/yq2qsf---and I can imagine that they can occur on war 
clouds, in places they have never been seen before or after....



Ya Sam wrote:

> Actually I started to read more, since I discovered Pynchon.
>
> Reading at the moment: 'Decameron' by Boccaccio, 'The Man without 
> Qualities' by Robert Musil, 'The Road to Reality' by Roger Penrose, 
> 'Les Bienveillantes' by Jonathan Littell (this is one of the darkest 
> books about Nazi crimes I've read so far), 'Krabat' by Otfried 
> Preussler (movie in the making, will premiere in 2008), 'Egypt, Greece 
> and Rome' by Charles Freeman, re-re-reading short stories by Borges, 
> cannot have enough of them.
>
> Just watched for the first time 'Wings of Desire'. Wow. This is a 
> Pynchonian movie: angels and a trapeze artist.
>
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