Luddite essay

[Doug Millison]

Anybody interested in knowing what Pynchon had to say in his Luddite 
essay would do well to read the essay itself and not rj's rewrite of 
same.

Pynchon wrote:  "By 1945, the factory system - which, more than any piece of
machinery, was the real and major result of the Industrial Revolution
- - had been extended to include the Manhattan Project, the German
long-range rocket program and the death camps, such as Auschwitz. "

You might want to re-read that "By 1945" as a way to evaluate the 
merit of rj's obviously false contention that Pynchon, as rj claimed 
the other day,  "does *not* believe that the "three curves of 
development", that is, "the Manhattan Project, the German long-range 
rocket program and the death camps, such as Auschwitz", were 
convergent prior to 1945."

To the contrary, Pynchon clearly asserts that the factory system "had 
been extended to include" the  Manhattan Project, the German 
long-range rocket program and the death camps such as Auschwitz"  by 
1945. That Pynchon would spare the Nazi death camps from criticism in 
this essay is just wishful thinking on rj's part.
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