V-2nd: Teflon

Kai Frederik Lorentzen lorentzen at hotmail.de
Sat Jun 19 05:43:33 CDT 2010


Perhaps an allusion to the Manhattan Project?
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene
 
Kai
 
>
> Why Teflon as his name? Life doesn't stick to him; it sticks to his photographs.
> I am reminded among other things in his novels, of the words in GR about the 
>'scumblings of time' or suchlike---you can look it up---which
> is a positive in his vision, imho.
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