WWII in GR

[jbor]

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> AND then
> there's that PLUTO, those plutocracies, that pipeline, those cartels, those
> petrochemicals (petrol, plastics, Imipolex G, even) ...

Yes, but not in that passage imo. Unless the reader reconstructs it in a way
that was not intended by the author and so defers to a particular
"preferred" reading of their own. Imo, that is.

> ... but I've no problem considering, admitting, proposing, even, various and
> even opposing readings.

Ad infinitum? With no textual corroboration or overt connection bar the
(apparent) coincidence of one word?

> I have no problem reading them, at any rate.  What I do
> have a problem with is the foreclosure of such readings,

No foreclosures. Just disagreement.

> for which I esp. see no
> particular reason here, in a space seemingly established for thinking out
loud,
> or, at any rate, on screen.  Again (and again and again ...), no one here is
> proposing the Holocaust as necessarily the ruling sign of Gravity's Rainbow.
> Some of us are merely noting signs of it within, whilst you so furiously, if
not
> quite soundly, deny their significance.

No go, monroe.

> And you sure can rant about all that stuff you mention, just as
> I could complain about onlist discussions being surreptitiously slipped out of
> sight and into my own private mailbox, but ...

Not so, monroe. (As you well know.)