pynchon-l-digest V2 #2081

[Otto]

Doug:
> It's a fact that wars have continued without cease, in
> one or another place in the world, since the "end" of
> World War II.  Clearly, war and violence don't bring
> peace.
>
> It's also a fact that, not having taken the pacifist
> alternative, we don't know what it might have
> produced.
>

(...)
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken)

"Could he have been the fork in the road America never took, the singular
point she jumped the wrong way from?"  (GR 556)