BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[ish mailian]

David Morris. I think you should please stop calling me names.


Thank you.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:13 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ish/Terrance,
>
> A myth you have used. Your attributing it to Pynchon is dishonest, but
> that's common for your statements. Bombast isn't authority.  This list is
> smarter than your megalomania.  Put up or... well we know you won't shut up.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Thursday, April 7, 2016, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  A myth Pynchon uses.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> > On 07.04.2016 12:41, ish mailian wrote:
>> >
>> > 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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