SLSL Intro, "almost, but not quite me..."

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<Well alrighty, now. What are we to make of this seemingly honest confession 
of immaturity? "...almost, but not quite me" ? The Intro Narrator (IN), here, 
is accepting "the young writer" back into himself ...>>

I think you misread.  "Almost but not quite me," is no more than Pynchon's 
admission that he (at the time he wrote the story) hadn't so much created a 
character in Levine as inserted his own sensibility in slight disguise.  I 
see no reason to read this as Pynchon in the Introduction's present accepting 
the young writer back into himself.  I find it far-fetched.  Given that, I 
obviously don't agree with that of your argument that follows from there.

<<That would be, not the avoidance of death and sex in SR, but, The Holocaust 
in GR, where the art of avoidance has grown uncomfortably large.>>

As for whether Pynchon avoids the Holocaust in GR (I happen to think he does, 
for the most part), you might take that up with Millison.