What does Pynchon do?

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> I'd say that a W.W.I novel has little to tell us about the current
> problem with Iraq. 

Both wars have similar beginnings, in the setup and the beliefs of 
the assassins carrying them out. Religion is death.

> A novel like GR might be more appropriate if we could
> discuss it not as a W.W.II novel (since it is not really a W.W.II novel,
> but a novel about weapons of mass destruction and the proliferation of
> such weapons), but as a novel written in the 1970s. Why does Pynchon
> drop the bomb after GR? VL doesn't mention the bomb. Why not?

Great question! IMO volumes could be written about this but it seems 
to me that Vin(e)land/"Oceania" accepts the bomb and superpower 
globalism, and speaks of the pathos of those ruling ideals instead of 
their actuality and threat. Basically, people lived under the Bomb 
too long and accepted it as background noise (much as people living 
under threat of death, such as the elderly, HIV patients or 
Palestinians, have come to accept imminent death as part of their 
milieu).



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