V2nd - Chapter 9 - a bit of investigative legwork / Barkhausen, sferics and the Duse

[Michael Bailey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Barkhausen

http://www.answers.com/topic/heinrich-barkhausen

he might have been at Goettingen when Kit Traverse was there...

"After World War II he returned to Dresden to aid the reconstruction
of his Institute of High-Frequency Electron-Tube Technology, which had
been destroyed by bombing, and remained there until his death." [in
1956]


listen to some sferics:
http://spaceweather.com/glossary/inspire.html

 The Duse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleonora_Duse
(no word on whether the phrase, "that's a doozie" comes from her name)

Fiume: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Regency_of_Carnaro
this was that infamous state founded by the poet D'Annunzio...

trippy conversation betw V. and Godolphin, she's remembering
D'Annunzio and the Duse, whose legendary love she said was nothing
like the glamorous affair GD apparently promoted it as...
ole GD appears to have been rather a nasty Norbert:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_d%27Annunzio
- he was not only involved with the Duse, but also an inspiration to the Duce!
"It was rather the culture of dictatorship that Benito Mussolini
imitated and learned from D'Annunzio. D'Annunzio has been described as
the John the Baptist of Italian Fascism,[5] as virtually the entire
ritual of Fascism was invented by D'Annunzio during his occupation of
Fiume and his leadership of the Italian Regency of Carnaro.[6] These
included the balcony address, the Roman salute, the cries of "Eia,
eia, eia! Alala!", the dramatic and rhetorical dialogue with the
crowd, the use of religious symbols in new secular settings.[5] It
also included his method of government in Fiume, the economics of the
corporate state; stage tricks; large emotive nationalistic public
rituals; blackshirted followers, the Arditi, with their disciplined,
bestial responses and strongarm repression of dissent.[7] He was even
said to have originated the practice of forcibly dosing opponents with
large amounts of castor oil, a very effective laxative, to humiliate,
disable or kill them, a practice which became a common tool of
Mussolini's blackshirts.[8][9][10]"


(like so many things, all I can say is, "I did not know that!")


 - the conversation apparently leaves her in a rather bad mood: p.269
"...after braining an inquisitive goldfish with a rock, she left
Godolpin."







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liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
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