Atdtda22: [43.4i] Belonging, 624

[kelber at mindspring.com]

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>From: Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com>

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>[624.22-23] "... and 'Traverse', what sort of name ... you are not also
>Hebraic, by any chance?"

Followed by a general rant about Jews, and Jew-baiting of various non-Jewish Gottingen mathematicians (the Jewish ones were, of course, purged by the Nazis. David Hilbert [disclaimer: Wikipedia source] seems to have lodged only mild protests). 

On p. 625 [re: modern rational architecture becoming invisible]:

"'Until one day one is left with only traces in the world, a few tangles of barbed wire defining the plan-view 
of something no longer quite able to be seen ... perhaps certain odors as well, seeping in, late at night, from somewhere upwind, a wind which itself posesses now the same index of refraction as the departed Structure...'"

The speaker is identified as "someone in a guard's uniform."  It seems to be an anticipation of the Holocaust.

Laura