BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[Ray Easton]

Well, it is certainly a myth the p-list uses.

Does Pynchon himself use it?  That's not clear to me.



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On April 7, 2016 6:30:55 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

>  A myth Pynchon uses.
>
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>
>>> and that the Germans used the Baedeker
>> stars to select targets to bomb <
>>
>>
>> This is a myth.
>>
>> It's based on a quote by Gustav Braun von Stumm who said in a press
>> conference on 4/24/42:
>>
>> „Now the Luftwaffe will go for every building which is marked with three
>> stars in Baedeker“ („Jetzt wird die Luftwaffe jedes Gebäude mit drei Sternen
>> im Baedeker angreifen“)
>>
>> Thing just is that there were no three-stars-marks in the Baedeker, neither
>> in the edition from 1937, nor ever before. Even two stars were rare, and
>> cities like Exeter, Bath or Norwich did not belong in that category.
>>
>>> Von Stumms Äußerung war in der Sache falsch, da die Vergabe von drei
>>> Sternen in Baedeker-Reiseführern gar nicht vorkam, auch nicht bei der 1937
>>> erschienenen letzten Auflage des Reisehandbuchs für Großbritannien vor 1945.
>>> <
>>
>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baedeker_Blitz
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>>
>> On 07.04.2016 12:41, ish mailian wrote:
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>> 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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