Pynchon & rap

[Scott Badger]

From: Doug Millison:
> You say it's not obvious that the Ss in GR's opening scene refer to the
Nazi
> SS, that the evacuation refers to the transportation of Holocaust victims
to
> their doom, but I think in Pynchon's context, a novel set in WWII of which
> Nazi war crimes are perhaps the most widely known and sensational fact
(even
> as it can be argued that the U.S. use of the atomic bomb to attack Japan
> should be equally condemned, and certainly there has been a kind of
> "propaganda" effort that has kept Nazi crimes on the front burner and U.S.
> crimes on the back burner), this does not require a great leap of the
> imagination, that it seems to me an obvious reference.

Double integration??......."Obvious", though, is not an adjective that I
would ever use with anything Pynchon.

Scott Badger