BTZ42: WvB's epigraph and Elie Wiesel
Thomas Eckhardt
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Tue Jun 7 12:05:38 CDT 2016
FYI (perhaps):
https://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=1603&msg=194178&sort=date
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 09:06:01 -0500
Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was skimming some of the Weisenburger in advance of
>leading this next
> episode, here. Was reading the full source for *GR*'s
>epigraph, which
> source Weis calls "a little homily by Wernher von
>Braun."
>
> WvB opens: "Today, more than ever before, our
>survival--yours and mine and
> our children's--depends on our adherence to ethical
>principles. Ethics
> alone will decide whether atomic energy will be an
>earthly blessing or the
> source of mankind's utter destruction."
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