BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[ish mailian]

> Slothrop's use of stars instead of pins might be his own way of telling
> Death to fuck off. Something fun happened here. Atta girl!


Just another thing to add to the very insightful and wonderful reading
of LK here. It's been noted that  Baedecker used stars to rate the
tourist locations in England and that the Germans used the Baedecker
stars to select targets to bomb. Pynchon, of course, also used the
Baedecker, and, as he developed from V. to GR, while P continued to
make use of the useful books, critiqued it as a product the Elect's
politics and history in/of  Europe.


see
A Supernatural History of Destruction; or, Thomas Pynchon's Berlin

Eric Bulson
New German Critique
No. 110, COLD WAR CULTURE (Summer 2010), pp. 49-72
Published by: Duke University Press
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