Crownshaw's PN article

[Paul Mackin]

Apologies for the misspellings of Mr. Crownshaw's name.

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Paul Mackin wrote:

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> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Mark Wright AIA wrote:
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> > Howdy
> > --- Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > There was an exceedingly interesting footnote to the paper which by
> > > its
> > > very nature--it's about something P said outside the book--would be
> > > of
> > > interest to p-listers. However it's 14 lines and I don't know if I
> > > should
> > > reproduce it unless John K or someone sez it's OK.
> > 
> > It's OK.
> 
> Heh, heh, I was just thinking I might be violating a copyright
> recklessly in plain view of the owners by reproducing more than what's
> allowed under fair use--the extent of which I didn't know off the top of
> my head. What I should have done was merely  summarize what seemed to me
> an interesting footnote relating to P. It not earth shaking and some might
> think it redundant but you can judge.
> 
> The author of the paper, Richard Crownshaw, feels it's possible
> "to motivate" allegories he finds in GR "to register not just the absence
> of preterite histories but the presence of their discontinuity." (this
> being being a fine thing I judge in the cause of giving the Holocaust
> victims a just representation) In making his claim however Crownshaw feels
> obliged to cite something P once said that might indicate that P might
> possibly be dubious about such a possiblity or then again might not. It
> seems there was a 1968 letter in which P linked the genocide of the Herero
> to that of the Jews in Hitler's Europe (not a surprising revelation of
> course). This fact can be put together with the story in GR of the Hereros
> led by Enzian who in searching for their historical origins get all
> confused and search for V2 rocket technology instead getting involved in
> the bargain with the discourses of fascism. How, Cranshaw wonders, is this
> story to be read: Is it throwing into question the possiblity of
> historicizing the Holocaust and more generally Nazism (what Cranshaw
> would like) . Or is that P "has finally succumbed to the impossibility of
> historical discontinuity." (contrary to Cranshaw)
> 
> The stuff in parentheses is my own ignorant explication. Hope I haven't
> got things hopelessly muddled. 
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> 			P.
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