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

[Fiona Shnapple]

The written explanatory matter accompanying an illustration, map, etc.

Working chronologically thru the OED, this one shows up in late
capitalism, in the 20th century. And, as P is fond of maps and
mapping, I'm gonna go with it. That's only if I have to play this game
of Scrabble?

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
> I’m leaning to yours, David, but not 100% sold on any suggestion so far.
> Consider context: Ziggy has just handed Maxine a flyer for March Kelleher’s
> website,  autographed by March at the school assembly.
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> “’Hey, so you saw March. Well. In fact, well well.’ The hashslingrz legend
> continues, here. March Kelleher happens to be Gabriel Ice’s mother-in-law…”
>
>
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> 1.      Legend = cover story (maybe via Le Carre): March’s relationship to
> Ice is a fact, not  part of a false identity or a deceptive background for
> Ice or his company.
>
> 2.      Legend = saga, lore, myth: I’m not sure how it makes Ice or
> hashslingrz more “legendary,” or affects their reputation at all,  to know
> that his mother-in-law spoke at Kugelblitz
>
> 3.      Legend = key to interpretation: Maxine has not seen March for 10-15
> years, and right now the only current information she has is that Marsh
> talked about Bush and Saudi Arabia at the school assembly. That *might*
> connect somehow, somewhere with the hashslingrz/Middle East hints on pp.
> 47-48 – in fact we know it will --  but at this moment, is it enough to
> justify “the key to interpretation (of what hashslingrz is up to) has been
> extended by this”..?
>
>
>
> For what it’s worth, this sentence was a last-minute substitution. In the
> ARC, the passage read:
>
>
>
> “’Hey, so you saw March. Well. In fact, well well.’ She recognizes the name,
> all right, March Kelleher is Gabriel Ice’s mother-in-law, for one thing, her
> daughter Tallis and Ice having been…”
>
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> From: David Morris [mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 1:14 PM
> To: jochen stremmel
> Cc: Monte Davis; Thomas Eckhardt; pynchon -l
> Subject: Re: BEER Ch. 6, 53-57: knotting into March Kelleher
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> Legend in this sense means a key to interpretation.
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> 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.
>
>
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> 2013/10/28 Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>:
>> 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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