The Penguin Cup

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Great! I'm sure you'll enjoy The Glass Bees.

Already in Heliopolis (1949) several SciFi elements can be found: Mobile 
phones ("Phonophor"), GPS ("Punktamt") and even drones which are 
pictured as "kinda crossbows" that find their target by magnetism and 
kill it with radiation. There's space travel and the moon has already 
been colonized.

When I feed search engines with  "Jünger" and "US exhibitions" the first 
I get is this:

http://www.dmns.org/science/museum-scientists/frank-krell/krell-lab-entomology-program/updates/beetles-in-a-new-objectivity/

"Subtile Jagden" (1967) mentions Nabokov, to whom butterflies were what 
beetles were to Jünger.

But your acquaintance probably meant this:

https://www.dhm.de/en/press/the-first-world-war.html

A steel helmet of a British officer, taken as booty by Jünger is shown 
as object # 5:

https://www.dhm.de/fileadmin/medien/relaunch/1914_05_ICON_Stahlhelm_01.jpg

One should add here that Jünger always honored the enemy as 
complementary warrior. And although he never was a liberal, he took part 
in the European reconciliation after 1945 with honest commitment. This 
goes especially for the relations between Germany and France.


On 18.06.2014 14:41, Dave Monroe wrote:
> I not only ordered yet another copy/Ed. Of The Glass Bees last night ...
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classics/the-glass-bees/
>
> ...  a while back I name dropped EJ to a James Joyce/WWI 
> aficionado/bus driver acquaint nce of mine who I was surprised had 
> never heard of him. He subsequently toldvme of an exhibit or some such 
> devoted to him @, I think, the WWI Museum or some such in KC --> 
> http://theworldwar.org/ ...
>
> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, Kai Frederik Lorentzen 
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de <mailto:lorentzen at hotmail.de>> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/penguin-cup/#germany
> >
> > In the German team I miss Ernst Jünger!
> >
> > (He indeed - "Storm of Steel", "On the Marble Cliffs" - got 
> published by Penguin.)
> >
> > While we're at football ('soccer') & literature, let me hint at a 
> famous 'concrete poem':
> >
> >              "Die Aufstellung des 1. FC Nürnberg
> >                 vom 27. 1. 1968
> >
> > WABRA
> >
> > LEUPOLD  POPP
> > LUDWIG MÜLLER   WENAUER   BLANKENBURG
> > STAREK  STREHL  BRUNGS  HEINZ MÜLLER  VOLKERT
> >                            Spielbeginn:
> >                      15 Uhr"
> > aus: Peter Handke, Die Innenwelt der Außenwelt der Innenwelt, 
> Frankfurt a. M. 1969, S. 59
> >
> > http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Gertraude.Zand/Dokumente/Handke.pdf
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: The Penguin Cup
> > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:42:18 -0500
> > From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com 
> <mailto:against.the.dave at gmail.com>>
> > To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org <mailto:pynchon-l at waste.org>>
> >
> > 
> http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-penguin-cup-matches-writers-living-and-dead-in-bid-for-glory-20140616-story.html
> >
> > 

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