Is this Book just a book? (was re: Religious Fundamentalism in Orwelland Pynchon)

[Terrance]

lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
> 
>                               David Morris schrieb: "This passage is just fine
>                               as a paragraph in a fictional world."
> 
>     this mail of yours is just fine as a posting in a consumer world ... damn,
>     dude, we're not talking about grisham or such: this is the rainbow, this is
>     radical art! since the avantgarde stepped on the scene around 1910,
>     authentic art is always up to dissolve the barriers between beauty and our
>     every day life ... in 1973, when gravity's rainbow came out, you'd probably
>     have been arguing that the war is south east asia plays no role in it cause
>     you cannot find the word "vietnam" anywhere in the novel ... kfl


I've never read a convincing critical reading of GR that argues that the
War in SE Asia plays a role in GR. Can you point me to one or can anyone
point me to a few passages in the novel and explain to me how these
passages support such a reading.