Chasing ... Cutting

[Otto Sell]

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
To: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
Cc: Otto Sell <o.sell at telda.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Chasing ... Cutting


>
> In the meantime, in light of perhaps not only my own values, but ones I
read out
> of the text, out of Pynchon's texts, esp. in light of "Is it O.K. to be a
> Luddite?"
(http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/pynchon/pynchon.paper.luddite.html),
> I can't help but read GR as positing the Holocaust, Hiroshima, not to
mention
> Global Nuclear Apocalypse, as Very Bad Things Indeed.  How do you account
for
> Pynchon's nonfiction?  Do you?  Let me know ...
>



    "By 1945, the factory system -- which, more than any piece of machinery,
was the real and major result of the Industrial Revolution -- had been
extended to include the Manhattan Project, the German long-range rocket
program and the death camps, such as Auschwitz. It has taken no major gift
of prophecy to see how these three curves of development might plausibly
converge, and before too long. Since Hiroshima, we have watched nuclear
weapons multiply out of control, and delivery systems acquire, for global
purposes, unlimited range and accuracy. An unblinking acceptance of a
holocaust running to seven- and eight-figure body counts has become -- among
those who, particularly since 1980, have been guiding our military
policies -- conventional wisdom. " from:
http://pages.whowhere.com/internet/f.vazquez/luddite.html

Otto