A world w/o Baedeker Girls

[Robert Mahnke]

without Baedeker's?

>From Slow Learner:
>
> "If [...] you believe that nothing is original, and that all writers 'borrow' from 'sources,' there still remains the question of credit lines or acknowledgements. It wasn't till 'Under the Rose' (1959) that I could bring myself, even indirectly, to credit guidebook eponym Karl Baedeker, whose guide to Egypt for 1899 was the major 'source' for the story.
>
> [...]
>
> "Loot the Baedeker I did, all the details of a time and place I had never been to, right down to the names of the diplomatic corps." (p.17)
>
> "[...] The old Baedeker trick again." (p.21)

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:15 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nabokov's Lolita, Edmund Wilson, FS Fitzgerald, TS Eliot.
> So, I did the job on Eliot's Jews and Freud's cigar and the Baedekered
> and yellowed newpaper hat journalist, and how Nabokov, a wandering
> Humbert from languages east of english came to america in search of a
> pins in the map motel room setting for his butterflies to fly from,
> and of course how fitz has these baedeker legs swinging beautiful and
> damned mechanical bride limbs with precision or drinking under the
> pools of light at james gatz's flat-ended egg, but did I mention
> edmund wilson's europe w/o baedekers? Wilson ties all these writer's
> together. Did young P read, study wilson?