pynchon-l-digest V2 #1447

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<... without the Holocaust and the slave labor that the Holocaust provided, 
there would have been no V-2 rockets to launch. As such, without the 
Holocaust, there would be no "parabolic arc of the V-2" for rj, or anybody 
else, to designate as the novel's central metaphor.  So the Holocaust remains 
at the center of GR, too. Whether you like it or not. That's where Pynchon 
put it.>>

No, it isn't and no he didn't.  This argument is really quite specious.  

The central image in The Sound and the Fury is a girl's soiled pair of 
underpants.  By Millison's starved logic that puts the United Womens Garment 
Workers at the heart of that novel.