On V. the sign.

[Joseph Tracy]

Wow. We know he was aware of German documents for V and GR and that he had read Wittgenstein and Rilke. But is it known whether he read these from German texts?
> On Dec 11, 2018, at 4:54 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy All,
> 
> Not long ago and by complete accident I came across "The Language of the
> Third Reich (LTI)" by Victor Klemperer, a jewish philologist who worked in
> Dresden and documented the linguistic shift that occurred during the
> dictatorship.
> 
> In a section called "From the Great Movement Forward" Klemperer writes of
> the LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii) that "Its entire vocabulary is dominated by
> the will to movement and action." (p. 210) At the end of the chapter he
> writes: "And finally, ossified into a scientific formula and tirned into a
> spell, there was the 'new weapon', the magic letter that could always be
> heightened. (...)
>   The final paragraph of the chapter starts: "The magic letter takes a
> strange revenge: V was originally the secret code used by the illlegal
> freedom fighteres in the occupied Netherlands to identify themselves, V
> stood for *Vrijheid*, freedom. (...) And then, in the final phases of the
> war, V became the abbreviation for *Vergeltung* [vengence], the emblem of
> the new weapon whic h would avenge and bring to an end alld the suffering
> inflicted on Germany.
> 
> Publication information that I have found indicates German publication in
> 1947 but other info states 1957. However, as far as I can tell the English
> translation only became available in 2000. Would TP have had access toa
> German edition in California as he planned GR? Hard to see and without
> library records there is no way to confirm it.
> 
> That said the LTI text should be included in some essay on possible
> references for V as a mulitfaceted and polysemic signifier leaping from
> signified to signified.
> 
> peace
> mc otis
> 
> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail>
> Libre
> de virus. www.avast.com
> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail>
> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
> 
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 2:06 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> https://twitter.com/PeterSokolowski/status/1068258206957346817
>> --
>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> 
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l