Corroboration for Doug (was Re: Sanders ...

[Doug Millison]

Yeah, I've read that Hirsch letter before, even before "jbor" started
chunking it out here repeatedly. Pynchon is clearly placing the
responsibility for the Herero suicide -- if that's what it is, and Pynchon
hedges his bets here ("the thing goes much deeper") -- on the colonizers and
the conditions they impose, not on the Hereros. "jbor" has often suggested
otherwise, although I wouldn't be surprised to see another flip-flip on this
as on so many other positions "jbor" has changed in the course of the
discussion. Difficult to say, with all the evasions and flim-flam (whatever
it takes to strike a spark and fan a flame), but is "jbor" suggesting that
Pynchon is saying, by extension, extrapolating frmo the Herero case, that
the Jews committed suicide in the Holocaust -- is that, finally, "jbor's"
point?  That would fit with the arguments "jbor" has presented, repeatedly,
vis-a-vis the Holocaust and Nazi crime material that Pynchon weaves through
GR, the consistent effort that "jbor" has made to read GR as a novel that
avoids blaming the Nazis for the crimes that make up such a significant part
of the novel,