Holocaust (Re: NP: Not to bring up a shitstorm or anything...

[Paul Mackin]

A main reason for NOT doing something (like writing about the Holocaust)  is
that you want to do something else. Your artistic vision lies elsewhere.
Also, that Herman Wouk was covering the Holocaust. 

			P.


On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> jbor wrote:
> >
> >I agree wholeheartedly with MalignD's very sensible assertion that 
> >Pynchon's reluctance to offer definitive or central treatment of the 
> >Holocaust in the text of _GR_ derives, at least in part, from an 
> >unwillingness to presume to know, or to speak, as an authority on something 
> >of this magnitude and of which he has had no personal experience.
> ----------
> hey foax, you know Pynchon wasn't exactly an Herrero, or a fucking dodo--you 
> are trying to explain writer intention with no evidence.
> geez
> don't know about the centrality of the holocaust, per se, but let's say 
> "trauma" instead or unimaginable suffering and evil, drop terms altogether 
> and forget about Pynchon's reluctance, wish, fears, etc.--we'll never 
> know'em...
> 
> sorry, mon. morning, fucking giants, bad coffee
> (and apologies to davemarc)
> 
> respectfully,
> Rich
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