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

[rj]

TF
> the irony twists again, since we are in the
> ZONE. This is the Zone of mindless pleasure, where these
> folks can not know who is in trial at Nuremberg and WHY? A
> true moral relativism exists in the zone, not in the book.

Hang on. This is G5, an historical fact, as much so as Blitz London or
the Reich within the text. Why do we suddenly have to suspend morality
just because the War is over? You can't just pick and choose who to
castigate and who to exempt from your moral strictures. I mean, you can,
but it's you that's doing it, not the text, and certainly not Pynchon.

> it's not beyond the
> book or the reader to find a moral center.

The reader brings a "moral center" to the book. After reading the book
her or his "moral center" might have shifted. However, it does not
necessarily follow that the book itself has a "moral center". This is a
false syllogism, isn't it?

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