a bit more

[jbor]

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(beneath the planet of the) millison:
> 
> Too bad,, that rj didn't include pointers to the posts containing his
> initial response to my *suggested readings* -- the posts where rj
> categorically denied the presence of the Holocaust in GR, which he
> later backed away from after I quoted the relevant descriptions from
> the Dora camp in Pokler's story.  It's more than a bit disingenuous
> of rj to omit this, but to be expected I suppose. The gesture would
> have been all the more gentlemanly had it been more intellectually
> honest.
>

The "categorical denial" millison refers to is actually included in one of
*his* posts that I provided the link for (it was my postscripted remark: "We
readin' the same book, fella?") So I didn't feel the need to repost the
entire thing. But here it is, plus some of my other posts on the opening
sequence from around that time, all in response to other listers' excellent
and perceptive comments:

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9905&msg=809&sort=author
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9905&msg=811&sort=author
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9905&msg=796&sort=author