Somewhat NP Argentinians bound for Germany

[Michel Ryckx]

jbor: "(...) The excerpt from it you cited does not reflect this meticulous
documentation at all. It is rife with exaggeration, unsupported narrativisation,
and citation of testimony which is dubious at the very least. Perhaps you could
quote something a little more reliable from it next time."

Just semantics you're using here.

You go on: "Pokler's story is not a story about the Jewish genocide at all.
Where are the depictions of this slave labour in the text? Where are the Jewish
characters, Jewish plotlines, Jewish perspectives, as compared, say, to
Argentine, Japanese, Herero, Dutch, let alone German, Russian, British,
American? Where is there an examination of Judaism, or anti-Semitism, as there
is of Puritanism, Gnosticism, colonialism. Using the Holocaust to "tie together
so many threads in the novel" is something a reader might do. But, as you
continually prove, it is necessary to seek outside the text to do so, or to turn
the text into something other than what it is by a process of fanciful
reinterpretation."

Anyone reading this novel, set during WW2 in Germany (jbor should say: no, it's
'a' war, and it is set in a Zone) and not seeing the Holocaust in it, is eh,
'...narrow-minded'.  Is your point of view: there is only text, we cannot know
the the author's motivation, and the reader must set aside anything he knows

""Ranks"?! Pynchon is concerned with 'ranking' genocides?! That's news to me.
What is the measure of these "terms of importance"? Amount of ink devoted to
specific descriptions? Number of characters? Plot threads? Body count? This is
baloney."

May I remind of you of the 60.000 dead Herero's, described as: not much, but
still pretty good, being 1 % of 6 million.
Where is a passage when you need it desperately,

M.