grgr4 Proof of the pudding (was Re: GRGR(4): Episode 12

[DudiousMax at aol.com]

To Those Who Know,
                And those who might not.  The Sasoon family were very wealthy 
Jews who arose during the 19th century and came to be known as "The 
Rothschilds of the East."  They were originally Persian (I think), and grew 
in influence to have brokerages in (From memory) Baghdad, Bombay, Shanghai, 
Yokohama, and probably more I can't remember.  They were allied in many 
instances with the Rothschilds, who together were called "The International 
Jewish Bankers' Conspiracy."  They have a long and colorful history.  IMHO, 
when Pynchon mentions the poet Siegfried Sassoon, not only does he put "in 
play" the guy's personal history, pacifism, but also his family history for 
the hundred and some years before his birth, and its role in the 
anti-semitism that was central to WWII.  You know the difference between 
Jewish Alzheimer's disease and everybody else's?  The Jews forget 
everything... but the Holocaust.  Joke.  Dark.  But Joke, nonetheless.
                          Max