Nordhausen, Vietnam, & Pynchon

[Aaron Yeater]

> A similar question can be asked about Vietnam. Where is it in Pynchon? Why
> didn't America's greatest writer--and one of the leading voices of the
> counterculture--use his enormous talents to speak out against the war?
> Is it all a complex enthymeme, as Chuck Hollander suggests, lurking there
> under the surface of the text, and gaining more force and power through
> its absence? Perhaps, but that's not entirely satisfying to me. Any ideas?

unsatisfying, p'raps.  but not uncommon.  as paul fussell's "The 
Great War and Modern Memory" makes clear, many writers of the vietnam 
era used the earlier wars I&II to surreptitiously expose the war for 
what it was...i suspect it became a tool to avoid polemic.