GR 'Streets'

[S.R. Prozak]

> A precedent/parallel perhaps: WG Sebald
> notes in On the Natural History of Destruction that
> Bomber Command, even though the destruction of German
> cities was not breaking morale there not affecting the
> munitions output by german industry, had put into
> place such a huge amount of men and materiale, that
> it, couldn't change its own plans--letting all those
> bombs and aircraft sit idle on the runways wasn't an
> option, the weapons had to be used even though results
> were increasingly of the diminishing returns type.

In other words, industry and bureaucracy force the process of conflict to come to a head. That's very present in GR, isn't it, with all of its discussion of magnetic and gravitational forces?

> beyond righteous indignation at such slaughter, what
> other possible concerns as an artist is Pynchon
> getting at do you think, regarding Hiroshima?

That war doesn't consider the right issues.

> I'm not sure Hiroshima and Nagasaki as events in and
> of themselves are not treated in similar ways in GR as
> the Holocaust is, i.e. that they are happening off
> stage and not as integral to the action as some might
> think when referring to 1944-45.

In 1945, The Holocaust(tm) was not considered important; it was backwritten into the war for the most part, just as Slavery(tm) wasn't an important motive in the Civil War.

NO GODS          NO MASTERS
           -I-
NO SLAVES        NO MORALS


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