Homegrown Homeland & the Felling-stones

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> In addition to the contextual argument offered by jbor, what takes it beyond
> 9/11 for me is that he uses the phrase 'bombs falling.' While the word
> 'homeland' is a buzzword for current U.S. events, no one remembers 9/11 as
> the day bombs fell on American soil. For me, 'homeland' triggered the 9/11
> association and 'bombs falling' took me to the World Wars and even to Iraq.
> I didn't stay in New York when I came to the words 'bombs falling.' Planes
> crashing into buildings was such a unique, outrageous and defining event.
> Pynchon's use of 'bombs falling' points elsewhere for me.


I agree. It's kinda like the nothingness example from GR. Sure,
existential nothingness pops into a reader's mind when he/she reads the
section that talks about the army chaplains, but a good reader dismisses
this kind of flash in the brain.