GRGR Holocaust, spleen

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:43 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

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> In 1999, I wrote:
> [...] If you read the "carriage" as a train car to a
> Nazi death camp, this allusion makes even more sense
> -- Pynchon announcing right up front what lies at the
> heart of this novel: the Holocaust of the Jews, and
> the forces (corporate, governmental, and military)
> that brought it about. [...]

The Holocaust may be heavy in your thoughts. virtually all you can  
think about, while reading Gravity's Rainbow. Why not leave it at  
that? Tone down the hyperbole.

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> "Heart" having caused such distress last time 'round,
> I now suggest that the Holocaust (and genocide more
> generally) be considered GR's spleen,


Not to sound disrespectful but how about calling it the tail  that  
wags Doug's dog?

> and that perhaps
> the Holocaust dead (and the rest of the war dead and
> injured and afflicted) might be seen as Their
> acceptable level of collateral damage along the way of
> achieving Their manifold objectives, as was the case
> for the victims of the Southeast Asian war taking
> place while Pynchon wrote GR, not to mention, now, in
> the Middle East.
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