Haunted by Iraq's Ghosts & Our WMD

[Doug Millison]

> Mason suffers from every cause and symptom of
> Melancholy Burton details


Really?  Every cause and symptom in that massive book?
I'd be surprised if even Pynchon has been that
exhaustive.  (Which is, by the way, well worth reading
in the recent NYRB edition.)

Can't disagree with the following, but cathyramirez69
might want to be careful in calling the Holocaust a
central concern in Pynchon's fiction, in this forum at
least:


> So what haunts this novel is what haunts all of
> Pynchon's books. They are there in the dump in
> Elmira
> New York, car bodies piled up like the corpses of
> Auschwitz. They are there when men of science and
> religion and business experiment on baby Tyrone and
> when Slothrop the soldier is injected with Sodium
> Amytol.  
> 
> Auschwitz continues to haunt, not the memory but the
> accomplishments of man  





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