Electric Bulb & Helgoland (Re: Germany, world energy)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

" ... and plop! there goes Byron in the water and flusssshhhh! away down 
the waste lines to the Elbe estuary. He is round enough to get through 
smoothly all the way. For days he floats over the North Sea, till he 
reaches Helgoland, that red-and-white Napoleon pastry tipped in the sea. 
He stays there for a while at the hotel between the Hengst and the 
Mönch, till being brought back one day to the mainland by a very old 
priest who's been put hep to Byron's immortality in the course of a 
routine dream about the taste of a certain 1911 Hochheimer ..." 
(Gravity's Rainbow, p. 652)

If people gave cross references to Pynchon, I wouldn't mind all those 
links ...

On 17.09.2014 12:39, alice malice wrote:
> HELIGOLAND, Germany — Of all the developed nations, few have pushed
> harder than Germany to find a solution to global warming. And towering
> symbols of that drive are appearing in the middle of the North Sea.
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/science/earth/sun-and-wind-alter-german-landscape-leaving-utilities-behind.html?_r=0
>
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