Back to V., MB's structure post cont.

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 2, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> I think the Universal Binding Ingredient, the one that did not / 
> could not sink in [for me] previously is Vheissu.

This little posting was lifted from the PynchonWiki for "V."

	Vheissu
	From The Modern Word (an excellent website for postmodern
	literature):
	Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land
	Ukkbar in Klein-Asien
	Johann Valentin Andreä Strassburg, Lazarus Zetzner, 1641.

	A very rare work of which only seven original copies survive,
	this fictional travelogue was written by J. V. Andreä, the
	purported author of Chymische Hochzeit Christiani
	Rosencreuzand "accidental" founder of the Rosicrucian
	movement. Author of several works involving imaginary
	communities and mystico-Christian utopias, including the
	Reipublicae Christianopolitanae Descriptio, Bemerkungen was
	an expansion of ideas first expressed in the Christianopolis,
	now projected onto an abstract philosophical country situated
	within the borders of present-day Iraq. While certainly of interest
	to Borges scholars and modern Rosicrucians,Bemerkungen is
	most notorious for its chapter on the ideal community of
	Vheissu, the major inspiration behind the infamous Zweite
	Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft. Better known to history as the
	Commune of Prague, the ZFG was an isolated group of
	philosophers, Rosicrucians, and Lutheran radicals who
	attempted to recreate the ideals of Vheissu by establishing a
	closed community outside Prague in 1773. Their experiment
	was a disaster, ending two years later in a spiral of cannibalism,
	violent orgies, and mass suicide. (For further details, see
	"Rosiges Glühen, Blutiges Kreuz," by Kristoph Gross, Der
	Annalen Metakarus, 1934, pp. 345-78; or "The Prague
	Commune and its Influence on DeSade's The 120 Days of
	Sodom," by Josephine Pinto, Lingua Franca, Vol 10/No. 3, April
	2000, pp. 22-25.)

http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vheissu