WWII in GR

[Dave Monroe]

What's astounding about Gravity's Rainbow, about Thomas Ruggles Pynchon,
Jr., in general, is not only that we're compelled to ask such questions in
the first place, but that they often pay off in the end.  In the meantime,
aside from sleeping, hope to spend a little time considering the other very
interesting issues indeed raised recently in this thread.  I suppose we all
know how I feel in re: both von Braun's et al. and their later American
handlers' culpability in re: well, war crimes--snetiments I think Gravity's
rainbow, Pynchon himself, might even share--but I don't recall ever
implying, much less stating, that Pynchon's Nazi characters lacked ...
complexity, humanity, even (we're ALL human, no?), they are certainly NOT
stereotypes, that's for sure.  I believe that Pokler is gnerally, and
justifiably, read as a von Braun figure of sorts, and despite von Braun's
"own" "prsence" in that very interesting indeed epigraph.  Again, teh Nazi
reconciliation of irrationality and, say, engineering, technology, science,
their rationalization of an irrational modernism.  Do keep in mind,
however, that a Nazi "utopia" would e quite dystopian from outside National
Socialism, at least from within liberal (in the broad sense) democracy.
But that "holocaust," does, indeed, jump out at me, but that juxtaposition
with "resurrection," not to mention "deliberate," not to mention "phoenix"
(which is, of course, to mention them), well, that's downright provocative
... will be back on this ...

Mark Wright AIA wrote:

> A question for Uncle
> Douglas -- what sign or signs was Pluto traversing in the early
> thirties, and what was its motion?
>
> mark
>
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