BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[Monte Davis]

Come on, David! "It's been noted" that

- the Lonely Planet tourist guides are very popular, and
- nuclear warfare would leave the Earth a lonely planet indeed, and
- both "lonely" and "planet" appear multiple times in GR, and
- a lonely planet figures prominently in Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince,
and
- Saint-Exupery was a pilot in the French air force in -- are you ready? --
1940, the year of the Blitz *and* of the development of Doppler guidance
for the A4/V-2 !!!!!

Now... are you going to acknowledge that Pynchon is drawing our attention
to the nuclear strategists' use of tourist guides for targeting... or are
you going to let yourself be bound by the prosy commonplaces of the
Pyndustry?

Maybe this will be cleared up later, maybe no.

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
>> > -
>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
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