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

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In a message dated 11/3/02 2:11:05 PM, MalignD at aol.com writes:

<< I think you misread. >>

First of all, I wasn't aware that I WASN'T taking up the issue of
how The Holocaust is handled in GR with anyone (or everyone) on
the list. The current thread was not specifically addressed to you,
as opposed to anyone else, although, I'm glad you took it up. I 
always enjoy your comments.

You make too much of my "accepting 'the young writer' back into
himself." I had too much coffee this AM. I meant he was done with
that trope, but had still found an angle to excuse the apprentice's
shortcomings- i.e., it was generational.

I will wait until the discussion of "Small Rain" to pursue the topic of
avoidance, although I think it opens up a crack in the "narrator as
Pynchon" argument. I also think "Small Rain" one of the better stories,
and deserves the opening positon in this volume, which might have been
called "Small Rain and Other Stories" with no loss of effect. I do not
like "Slow Learner."

In the meantime, I'm wondering, to what extent had the Jewish
influences noted by this narrator dealt with The Holocaust by the
time even of GR? I'm not asking because I already know the
answer, but in GR, the question of avoidance becomes the issue.

respectfully