GR evoking the Vietnam War?

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: GR evoking the Vietnam War?
> >>> Kai:

> >>> it has already
> >>> been said here that some of the war scenes read a
> >>> lot more like vietnam than like ww II.
> >>
> >> Rob:
> >> What war scenes?
>
> on 22/5/03 12:54 AM, Otto wrote:
>
> > It's like the "Foreword," you cannot omit the actual time in which a
text
> > has been written.
>
> Rob:
> But this doesn't answer the question. Where are the "war scenes" in the
> novel. (It's the absence of such scenes which is significant, in my
> opinion.)
>
> The examples you give don't evoke the Vietnam War for me at all.
>
> best
>
>
> > me:
> > All that reefer madness in GR:
> >

Then tell what's that reefer madness in GR? Anachronism? Shitty
novel-writing?

Otto