That tedious Holocaust discussion

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Dave wrote:

> ... and I think the point that Doug and I and others
> have been making is that Gravity's Rainbow is
> similarly a haunted novel in the sense of the enormity
> of the Holocaust "crawling around" not only at its
> "edges," though, as Otto and Doug and others have
> pointed out as well perhaps even at its leading edge,
> in that polyvalent opening episode, in that ostensible
> "dream" in which an evacuation from an air raid
> seemingly shades into an evacuation to a concentration
> camp, but throughout the novel (...)

Yes, my opinion exactly. "Crawling around its edges" and perhaps present

in the opening episode, and perhaps even informing the whole novel. Jbor

seems to have said as much, at least about the opening episode, in his
posting from May 99. So what's this ongoing fuzz all about? We all seem
to share this view or are at least able to admit the possibility that
this general evaluation of the role of the Holocaust in GR might be
valid.

Thomas