Re: [ejlist] DIE SCHERE #44: Notes 1

[rcalvom@ctv.es]

Hi, Junguerites

René de Bakker wrote:

> I remember vaguely, yes. Heliopolis is a long time ago for me. I had to
> think of the execution of a German soldier during WW2, as described in
> Strahlungen. When the man is hit, he at first expresses amazement, then,
> still standing, his outlooks become threatening, dangerous. On the way back
> in a car, the docter explains his gestures scientifically, but Juenger
> writes: he didn't see, what I saw.

Certainly, René.

It also may be posible that the two are the same, don´t you think?.
Looking for the exactly page of Strahlungen I have found, for
casualty, a reference about the silence of death. It is in Vol II,
1943, april, 22th:

 " At late in the afternoon, reading of an article of Cocteau about
Marcel Proust´s death that Marie-Louise Bousquet gave me.
In it, a sentence that shows in a direct way the enormous silence
dead go down to:

Il y régnait ce silence qu´est au silence ce que les ténébres sont á
l´encre.

At reading it I thought in the terrible description of a dead in the
subway by Thomas Wolfe. "

The execution is described in May, 29 ,1941. Strahlungen Vol I

best regards
roberto