GR, V2, slave labor

[Keith McMullen]

Agreed. The horror of the holocaust makes it quite difficult to assess 
the complexity of the context in which it emerged, and it begs for an 
"Us vs.Them" dichotomy. The word 'holocaust' occurs 6 times in the 
novel. Perhaps a close look at those 6 usages would tell us something.

On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:20 AM, jporter wrote:
I don't think Pynchon is interested so much in alluding
to the horrors of the Holocaust as he is in laying out
the psychic field permeating that time, including the
Holocaust. The effect is not to diminish the guilt of
those who committed genocide, but to enlarge it. The
approach tends to undermine the psychological fences
people erect around the camps and make them more
porous. What little difference there is between the
psyches of those inside and the rest of us becomes
more arbitrary.