Re: Schelmenromane (war: VineLand-IntraVenös)

[Michael Bailey]

yes, I apologize.  A one-off sig line might've been ok in a GR group
read.  Like if we were doing Mason & Dixon, to put in something about
the Civil War.  But it had way too long a run and no direct bearing on
Vineland (indirectly it points up the difference in scope and setting
between Vineland & GR, though; the postwar societies in both Europe
and the US have more in common with the Vineland set-and-setting than
that of GR; Vineland's pervasive ghosts also deal with the aftermath
of various depopulations, including the genocide of the Native
Americans and that in Southeast Asia; none of which was indicated in
my sig, of course)


On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

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>>>> In A.D. 1618, 12 million lived in Germany. Then came the great war.
>>>> In A.D. 1648 only 4 million still lived in Germany.
>>>> (opening to Karl Amadeus Hartmann's opera Simplicius Simplicissimus)
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>>> Vielleicht könntest Du noch einen VL-spezifischen
>>> Kontext herstellen?
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>> simply Simplicius fever...glee that someone wrote an opera about a
>> novel I remember as being very good...if there is a Pynchon
>> connection, let alone a Vineland connection (and I'm not saying ...
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> Hmm ... Still a disturbing way to express your joy about the existence of
> Hartmann's opera ... Me would have prefered the following:
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> http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mb_JWK1Hg
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> I agree, however, that Grimmelshausen's novel is a forerunner of "Gravity's Rainbow".
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> KFL+
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