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[Dave Monroe]

This is essentially what I've argued as well, a
certain ... responsibility there.  But with all due
attention, post-Derrida, if nothing else, for those
"margins," for the marginal, and for just how
"central," significant, important they, it can prove
to be, nonetheless.  But, yeah, Pynchon "writes" a
whole lotta stuff he couldn't possibly "know" in any
firsthand, experiential sense, no?  And there is a
certain humility involved as well, not only in the
face of such abjectly sublime (with that Burkean tinge
of overwhelming, unrepresentable and, here, distant
horror) events, but in the face of the sublime (with
that Kantian tinge of overwhelming, uncontainable
infinity) operations of language as well ...

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> From the review of the same book:  
> 
> "Many writers thake their inspiration from Theodor
> Adorno's dictum that to 
> write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."
> 
> It is this, one believes, that led Pynchon--a young
> man with no experience of 
> the war--to keep the Holocaust at the edges of his
> novel, to refrain from 
> attempting a narrative he, certainly, lacked the
> stature (choose your own 
> word) to address.
> 


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