pynchon-l-digest V2 #1610

[Doug Millison]

rj/jbor:
>The argument that "the Holocaust is central" to _GR_ is overtly an
>exclusivist approach. The interpretation of _Lot 49_ as a cryptic meditation
>on the assassination of JFK is likewise an exclusivist, or ultimate,
>approach. And, the reading of the crocodiles in the sewer as an allegory of
>covert U.S. militia operations in Vietnam is another example, or symptom, of
>such an approach.

These readings have never been advanced on Pynchon-L as the only 
possible or proper way to read these novels.  Instead, they have been 
suggested as possible interpretations that might be considered along 
with many other possible interpretations of GR, COL49, and V. -- 
both/and, not either/or.  No other interpretation is excluded and to 
say otherwise is a mischaracterization of what Charles Hollander, 
Dave Monroe (and the critics he quotes), I (and the critics I've 
quoted), and others have actually written here.

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