just for fun Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #1452

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 1 12:07:03 CDT 2000


>From Doug "Punching-Bag-Clown" Millison:
>
>Is reading GR in light of the Holocaust a new phenomenon? Am I really the 
>only person who has tried looking at GR while seeing the Holocaust as one 
>in a small circle of fundamental concerns that shape the novel?

No, but you ARE the most relentlessly boring at it.

>I offer these citations to support my simple, not novel observation, that 
>the Holocaust can be said to lie at the center of GR because the central 
>metaphor of the novel, the V-2 rocket, is itself fundamentally a product of 
>the Holocaust, manufactured by slave labor in a factory system that treats 
>slaves as disposable factors of production, the product and reflection of a 
>fascist System that dominates the world of novel.

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DM
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