appealing to McVay

[Doug Millison]

rj's post to Ken McVay is far from a straightforward statement of the 
dispute.  I have not called rj a Holocaust denier -- that remains 
rj's fiction -- but I have compared the evasions, equivocation, and 
prevarication of rj's quibbling about whether or not Dora is a 
Holocaust locale or if the Dora victims in GR might be considered 
Holocaust victims to the *kind of rhetoric* that Holocaust deniers 
use.  rj obviously doesn't like that comparison. rj has not given 
McVay any examples of his equivocations re Dora to examine, nor has 
rj told McVay that his rhetoric has been compared to Holocaust denier 
rhetoric (following Deborah Lipstat's description of same) -- no way 
that McVay can deliver an informed opinion in response to rj's 
intellectually dishonest statement. Whether McVay has read GR and 
cares to offer an opinion regarding the rather tortured literary 
critical point that rj is trying to make remains to be seen.  I won't 
be troubling McVay any more with this issue, since he has answered 
the questions, quite directly and straightforwardly, that davemarc 
suggested we put to him. It troubles me that an anonymous pynchon-l 
participant -- one of rj's defenders in this discussion thread -- has 
insulted the memory of Holocaust victims, and McVay's good work.

rj is welcome to continue to make his "presence of an absence" -- or 
is it "absence of a presence"? --  argument regarding the Holocaust 
in GR if he wishes. I will not respond to any more messages in this 
thread.
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