GR translation: Grandeur! Gesellschaft!

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, János.


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 1:46 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it is Gesellschaft as opposed to Gemeinschaft as explained here,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinschaft_and_Gesellschaft
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> 2013/9/22 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
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>> V442.37-443.9 (P450.7-19)  Twenty minutes later, somewhere in the
>> American sector, Slothrop is ambling past a cabaret where blank-faced
>> snowdrops are lounging in front and inside, and a radio or phonograph
>> somewhere is playing an Irving Berlin medley. Slothrop goes hunching
>> paranoiacally along the street, here’s “God Bless America,” a-and “This Is
>> the Army, Mister Jones,” and they are his country’s versions of the Horst
>> Wessel Song, although it is Gustav back at the Jacobistrasse who raves
>> (nobody gonna pull an Anton Webern on him) to a blinking American
>> lieutenant-colonel, “A parabola! A trap! You were never immune over there
>> from the simple-minded German symphonic arc, tonic to dominant, back again
>> to tonic. Grandeur! Gesellschaft!”
>>        “Teutonic?” sez the colonel. “Dominant? The war’s over, fella.
>> What kind of talk is that?”
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>> What does Gustav mean by "Gesellschaft" here?
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