WWII in GR

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> I'll assume Mackin agrees with me, that the gist of my rhetorical 
> question is absurd.

Yes he does and rhetoric is fine if there is any possible point to be made
by it. But there was not. You (not rj) suggested a farfetched hypothesis
and invented a new meaning for Holocaust denial. Then you said: of course
it's all quite absurd.

> You may not agree with me that the Holocaust is fundamental to the 
> novel, although, if so, I'd ask, where would the V2 rockets come 
> from?  But, if rj can read GR as a tract on U.S. race relations and 
> advocacy for black power politics, making Pynchon a sort of Equal 
> Opportunity enforcement officer, surely a reasonable emphasis on the 
> place of the Nazi Holocaust in this novel can be permitted?

Everyone knows Jewish slave labor was used in the production of the
rockets. But do you believe you've only wanted "reasonable emphasis" on
the Holocaust? Seems like you've wanted preponderantly overwhelming 
emphasis.

Are you saying that your exaggerations (which seem downright perverse at
times) are only fair (tit for tat) because  you believe rj's racial
interpretations are wrong or exaggerated? If this is so then you ought to
announce in advance where you are coming from 

			P.