GR evoking the Vietnam War?

[Dave Monroe]

And Shakespeare never quite gets around to actually
dramatizing the reign of ER I, yet he penned plays
notably concerned with problem(atic)s of royal
succession at a time when crises thereof stormed at
either historical horizon.  Invasion of the Body
Snatchers (the novel, the Don Siegel film thereof),
not to mention any number of contemporay SF
stories/movies, never quite mentions McCarthy, The Red
Scare, the Cold War, et al., but ... and so forth. 
Pynchon, by the way, never quite mentions JFK in The
Crying of Lot 49, either, but he mentions Dallas
pointedly and dramatizes his own crisis of succession.
 This is kinda sorta the way allusion works, not quite
mentioning whatever one is alluding to, no?  Or,
rather, yes.  A curiouis lack of imagination on yr
part on this topic, Terrance ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Interesting. Ain't it? Gravity's Rainbow is as much
> about America in the era of Vietnam and civil rights
> as it is about Europe at the end of World War II,
> but  P never mentions the war in SE Asia in the
> novel. The Foreword is as much about 9-11 and
> America in the era of 9-11 as it is about Orwell's
> Europe, Orwell, and _1984_, but P never mentions
> 9-11 in the Foreword.

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