adios amigos

[Doug Millison]

"jbor":
"Funny, the words "the Holocaust is central to _GR_" keep ringing in my
ears. But, whatever ...."

Maybe that's why "jbor" can't hear what I'm saying. When, if, the 
ringing in his/her ears stops, "jbor" will realize, perhaps,  that 
the formulation he/she keeps repeating, "Pynchon only depicts Herero 
history as a metaphor",  has always been "jbor's" statement and never 
mine.

Yes, I do argue that the Holocaust is central to GR. It's a 
proposition that's easy to support, not surprisingly since this 
simple observation falls within the mainstream of Pynchon criticism 
which is rife with articles that consider one then another aspect of 
the Holocaust-related material in GR.  Rewriting GR to show that 
Pynchon exculpates the perpetrators of that genocide and instead 
blames the victims -- that falls a bit outside the mainstream, but 
anybody is free to put forward anything they want to say in this 
forum.

Glad "jbor" and Paul have straightened us out on what Pynchon was 
thinking when he wrote "the thing goes deeper" in that Hirsch letter. 
What do you suppose Pynchon's thinking about right this minute? 
Enquiring minds want to know.  And, thanks for reminding me of what I 
had to say about what Pynchon actually wrote -- as opposed to trying 
to read his mind as he was writing it -- in that letter, touching 
that "jbor" would save my email all these months, too. Gives me 
chills, in fact.  Although, as Pynchon said re Jules Siegel, "jbor" 
might consider getting a life... "jbor's" frequent comments about 
"stalkers" begin to take on a chilly edge, too.

Weavercreature, I take your observations to heart.  I will retire 
from this particular fray once again.  Every once in awhile, however, 
I believe it's worth pointing out the elephants in this living room 
and the smell that can't be shoveled up, even if pointing out the 
hypocrisy and bullying and intellectual dishonesty does draw the kind 
of thick-headed response you see from "David Morris" and his 
side-kicks -- it is interesting to watch what they've made of this 
forum as everybody else has gradually slipped away, the efforts of 
Terrance and Davd Monroe and a couple of others notwithstanding.  If 
I thought that my going away would actually return Pynchon-L to its 
former state, I'd go -- but when I stayed away for several months 
last year, the crap just kept piling up without any help from me at 
all. "jbor" and the other personalities in that cracked constellation 
don't seem to have any problems finding new targets for their spew -- 
just ask the abovementioned Terrance and Dave Monroe about that.
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