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

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 A Small Town in Germany has a main character front and center with that
"legend"


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

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