"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 01/11/2005 MalignD wrote:

> ... the Holocaust is alluded to and no more.  My
> gut feeling is that Pynchon was wise enough to know it was a subject 
> he was
> without authority to probe in depth.

Not necessarily discounting this idea, but it is problematic in that 
Pynchon did decide to refer directly to, and compose fictional scenes 
depicting, the Herero genocide in the Südwest. The letter cited in 
David Seed's book reveals that these scenes are the product of library 
research.

I guess the relative obscurity of that particular historical episode is 
a factor, but Pynchon doesn't seem to have had any qualms about whether 
or not he was qualified to refer to and represent it in detail.

best