WWII in GR, And Me

[Dave Monroe]

.. well, then, you can just skip any relevant posts.  Sorry to have bored
(if not jbored) you with not only one of the major events of the
twentieth century, not only the sufferings and deaths of six to twelve
million human beings, but with something which is indeed manifest in and
relevant to what I had understood to be the topic at hand, i.e.,
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, of which there is, no doubt, plenty
to go around for ev'ryone, so ... If something doesn't particularly
interest me, I either figure that out pretty quickly, skip right on by
it, and don't complain, or I give it a hearing, and maybe even get
interested.  But, hey, perhaps unlike some, I'm just here (in particular,
in general) to maybe learn a little something, so ...

But, you know, if anyone's going to claim that something is irrelevant
to  the structure, content and/or meaning of Gravity's Rainbow, of any
text (for starters), much less appeal to something as inaccesible to them
as "authorial intention" (esp. that of one Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.),
they really ought then to give some indication as to what they think,
believe, hell, know, even, said structure, content, meaning and/or
inetntion to be.  So school me, MickeyB, school us all (just don't ask me
to take care of your hygiene problems, is all I ask) ...

MichaelB wrote:

> The vigor in this regard stems from the fact that not only is 'the
> holocaust' irrelevant to the structure content meaning and value of
> Gravity's Rainbow but that 'the holocaust' itself as an historical
> fact is boredom incarnate.  To go nitpicking around the Rainbow text,
> sniffing out little phrases and little words and by some (though none
> too potent) stretch of the imagination sewing them together into a
> web of Intention by the author is as interesting and pertinent to the
> totality of the text as is me picking dingleberries out of my ass.