WWII in GR, And Me And The Humanist Self-Taught Man

[MichaelB]

--- Mr. Monroe wrote:

'...you...particularly interest me...'


Thank you so much, and, kind sir, I accept, as is, your apology for
boring me ... us all perhaps ... to tears, with, and/or without, your
incessant blabber about ... general blabber, too, so ... 'the
holocaust', so, you'd surely admit, sir, ... kindly.  I admit, too,
that, as you say (and us all are we not?) regarding ... being ...
reason ... that I list, for no other relevant purspose than, to
learn, so ... thank you.  I fully intend (in this context) ...
totally ... to listen for your, and all (and even mine) ... that is
everybody's ... meaning.  Crackin suggested, and I heard, and
learned, as (forgive me, I'm sorry, but I believe) yourself, that if,
during discussion, from which we all listen, so ... par excellence
... and learn, from, and for, we use the term 'the holocaust', that
then, we should, in so discussing, first define our terms, so ...
rather constricting though, how he gave only three possible, as one
really ought to say, said definitions.  You see the problem with (not
that there really is ever any ... ) that, is that, in this way ... my
definition fits none of those, so elequently stated defintions.  You
see, Mr. Mono, I consider the holocaust to be, you see, so ...
ellipses ... only those events that took place (and I trust you have
no problem with me suggesting 'event' to be taken as a totalization
in that context ...  i.e., the event) on Kurfustenstrasse between
Postdamer and Bundesalle in Berlin on August 3, 1942, from 3:15 to
3:45pm.

m



> .. 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.
> 








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