Corroboration for Doug (was Re: Sanders ...

[jbor]

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>From: Doug Millison <DMillison at ftmg.net>


> but is "jbor" suggesting that
> Pynchon is saying, by extension, extrapolating frmo the Herero case, that
> the Jews committed suicide in the Holocaust

No, *you're* suggesting that I'm suggesting that, Doug. This would only be
the case if I held with *your* contention that Pynchon only depicts Herero
history as a metaphor for the Holocaust.

> I've read that Hirsch letter before

You don't seem to have read it particularly well then, or else you're simply
unable to accept what it is Pynchon thinks "the thing goes much deeper"
than:

                [ ... ] When I
    wrote _V._ I was thinking of the 1904 campaign as a sort of
    dress rehearsal for what later happened to the Jews in the '30's and
    '40's. Which is hardly profound; it must occur to anybody who gets into
    it even as superficially as I did. But since reading McLuhan especially,
    and stuff here and there on comparative religion, I feel now the thing
    goes much deeper.  [ ... ]

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