Pynchon, Coetzee, "the Holocaust as metaphor" and more

[Terrance]

> 
> I didn't say it shouldn't be included; I said there
> are reasons both good and bad that one is more
> emotionally charged (for many) than the other.  The
> difference in value place by some upon whites in
> Europe versus blacks in Africa being one particularly
> bad reason.

Yes, that's understood. 

But Pynchon doesn't avoid these subjects. 

The Holocaust is not absent from GR. It's there in black and white. 
But the issue you've raised is there too. How does he, now does the
world,   handle it? 
With care? With flippancy? Sell it? Buy it? Hell, why not try it! 

Should we be reading about this? 
Do you feel guilty? 

Guilt becomes a commodity in the Zone of GR. 
Remittance men  from all over the world head over will come to
Heidelberg to major in guilt. Bars nightclubs catering guilt enthusiasts
Extermination camps will be turned in tourist attractions, foreigners
with cameras will come piling through in droves, tickled and shivering
with guilt. 453

454 fashionable guilt