hollander for the mass, part 2

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 "for pynchon, world war 2 was a mounstrous holocaust, a cataclysm of 40 million 
 souls, resulting from a competition among technologies."

                   --- charles hollander: pynchon's inferno. cornell alumni 
                                                 news, november 1978 ---

  oh, that kind of "holocaust-novel" gr is .... sure, i agree, somehow ... if   
  the mentioned number, however, is to refer to all the dead people in the 
  comtext of ww 2, we have, i fear, to double it ... kai