GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Don't forget -- in all this talk of moral relativism and an inability to
> find Good and Evil in GR that don't dissolve beneath successive
> deconstructions -- that at the heart of this novel, at its very center,
> Pynchon has placed Pokler's tale and the relevations of how the Evil of the
> Holocaust serves the development of the Rocket and all the  Evil that the
> Rocket serves, sustains, makes possible. I challenge anybody to
> successfully make the case that Pynchon treats the Holocaust, in GR, in any
> sort of relativistic way -- to the contrary, how anybody can read through
> Pokler's story and come away without a clear picture of what is good
> (Nature, for starters; the sanctity of individual human lives; & more) and
> what is evil (destroying Nature's cycle of eternal return/rebirth, for
> starters) is beyond me.
> 


It's Beyond Beyond. Beyond Discourse, Demonstration,
Verification, and Justification and all those unrelative
philosophical ambiguities.