ATDTDA Eisvogel's; 700

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Also, there's a German beer hall in V. called 
"Scheissvogel's"...

Thomas

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:49:17 -0600
  "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, there was an Eisvogel's right near the Riesenrad.
> 
> As noted on the Pynchonwiki, this site
> http://www.prater.at/GalleryDisplay.php?Id=2
> has pictures.  Haven't found a way to link directly to 
>an individual pic,
> but the 1st thumbnail of the Giant Wheel opens up
> to show a view with the sign for "Zum Eisvogel" clearly 
>visible
> 
> There's also one directly of the Eisvogel.
> 
> German restaurant nomenclature for some reason often
> indicates motion toward animals: zum Loewen, zum Adler,
> or here, "to the Ice-Bird".
> Not un-apt, considering the ice-monster a few hundred 
>pages
> back; and the "wing of desolate absence" right here...
> 
> 700: so Misha and Grisha act as touts for the Colonel
> (who, the Pynchonwiki notes, _might_ be Max Khautsch,
> Lew's Chicago and London acquaintance, a possibility
> strengthened by the mention in both cases of Oriental 
>planes
> to the face) ---
> first vetting him, inspiring him to cruise less, read 
>the paper more,
> as he gets used to being watched and meeting them,
> until finally the summons comes...
> 
> but have they vetted him thoroughly?  Do they really 
>think he is
> just a "butterfly"?
> 
> Maybe he is, but the old school tie shows up in the 
>strangest places!
> Ratty -- (as in The Wind in the Willows.  Who, then, is 
>Mole?)
> hears Cyprian's apologia out politely.
> Ratty apparently scholarship, working-class, "my
> alternatives were Whitehall or Blackpool" - nice 
>black/white
> contrast; Whitehall meaning civil service, Blackpool 
>apparently
> even then a popular gay destination?
> 
> Derrick Theign -- I've cast him as Leo G Carroll (Mr. 
>Waverly)
> 
> 
> 
> "...there are not only landmarks, but also 
>anti-landmarks - for every
> beacon, an episode of intentional blindness." (Professor 
>Svegli, p248)