Hitler and denial for the sake of argument

[Dave Monroe]

I believe I share your confusion, and wish I would have had this message when I spent yesterday at a coffeeshop furiously bookmarking every reference I could
find in my now detereorating copy of Gravity's Rainbow.  Might have to get a new one just for this list (have had my eye on that nifty Penguin with the
blueprint on the cover) ... but I do think the issue is well worth discussion, will do so shortly in response to another posting ...

J Suete wrote:

> 33, 116, 135, 151, 275, 287, 300, 309, 349, 373,
> 394, 403, 415(wow holocaust and Hitler on the same page), 450, 476, 496, 526, 571, 626, 630.
>
> Hitler is one of Slothrop's disguises.
>
> Nazis are all over the book. Page 98, the Nazis, the
> flame, the oven, Blicero--"the fabulous monster" who goes deep into Their Province, into control, synthesis and control"[660-61 and 166-167], the rocket.
>
> Dora, Auschwitz, Holocaust, evil, bad guys, the rise
> of the nazis--the political, economic, philosophical,
> aesthetic (art, architecture, music etc)  roots, foundations, all over the book. What is this debate about?
>
> I feel like I've stumbled into a shrinks office and
> some real rough marriage counseling has just gotten under
> way. I know it's only an internet list but the arguments, while at times very enlightening are getting blurred by
> the BS.