BEER Ch. 6, 53-57: knotting into March Kelleher

[David Morris]

Legend in this sense means a key to interpretation.

Like Rosetta Stone,

On Monday, October 28, 2013, jochen stremmel wrote:

> I think you are right, Monte. Pynchon's use of "legend" here is in the
> sense saga, lore, myth, not like Le Carré's usage, which might not be
> MI6 argot but a Germanism, "Legende" in the sense of cover story for a
> spy. I didn't look it up again in his books.
>
> And Thomas is right, of course, with the "Schlageter" quote.
> Interestingly, the Wikipedia entry offers two translation of the
> original German: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst. And tells
> that March is not alone with her misattribution to Goering.
>
>
>
> 2013/10/28 Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net <javascript:;>>:
> > TE> Having just read some of Le Carré's novels, I find this reading of
> > 'legend' quite convincing. This would suggest that hashslingerz is a CIA
> > front, no?
> >
> > It's a tenuous association: I take Le Carre's usage to be MI6 argot, but
> (1)
> > don't remember seeing "legend" used that way in espionage fiction by
> others;
> > (2) don't know that TRP has read JLC, his peer in paranoia and
> > hustle/counter-hustle; and (3) don't often see Maxine as thinking
> spy-wise
> > rather than PI-wise. (Of course, one could debate whether that sentence
> > speaks for Maxine or the narrator over her shoulder.)
> >
> > In any event, there are plenty of more compelling links between Gabriel
> Ice
> > and the Permanent Government. This one's quite possibly my illusion of
> > connectedness, but I'm happy to share...
> >
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