re Amerikaka (NP?)

[Henry Musikar]

MalignD -

It seems that we are destined to clash, you and I, not so much over means
and ends, but rather over knowledge itself. Either everything is connected,
and therefore relevant, to various degrees, or nothing is (GR explanation of
paranoia, except for the important addition of "various degrees"). If
fiction makes sense, then it why can't it be relevant? If the past can't be
relevant, then what can be?

----- Original Message -----
From: <MalignD at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: re Amerikaka (NP?)


> <<...  it becomes easier to imagine the sort of drift that must have taken
> over right-thinking and even intelligent people in Nazi Germany.  What
they
> were doing must have seemed right and obvious every step along the way.
> Pokler couldn't see it coming, let himself get entangled, he never really
had
> a chance the way the movies hooked him in of course, realized too late
what
> crimes he helped commit. >>
>
> And this is especially relevant to the goings-on in Afghanistan, since it
> happened to a made-up German in a thirty-year-old novel, set some
twenty-five
> years earlier.
>
>
>
>
>