From: Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> > well, the nazis were good at their metaphors weren't they: cleansing > "shower" for a dose of poison gas, [snip] Is "metaphor" even the best word there? "Euphemism" comes to mind. Back to GR, I have major reservations about the accuracy of a statement that, in the book, Pynchon uses the Holocaust as metaphor. d.