GR P1 S1: "The Evacuation still proceeds..."

Scott Badger lupine at ncia.net
Wed Oct 26 21:38:25 CDT 2005


Paul:

 >At the same time it must be noted that historically those charged with 
obtaining an Allied  military victory--as represented  by Prirate and his 
employer--would not and could not have had the plight of Jews, even if it 
had been more fully understood, on the front burner of  their consciousness. 
If Pirate in fact was channelling the situation East, it would have been an 
extracurricular activity. not one sanctioned by the Firm.

...but, if what was being done to the Jews was known, at some levels at 
least, mightn't it have lead to some troubled dreams?....mixed up dreams set 
in the dreamer's own landscape?....and then, wouldn't it be Pirate's *job* 
to shoulder the weight of these dreams precisely so the dreamer could stay 
on task?

More interesting, perhaps, then the absence of the Holocaust in GR, is the 
absence of the War...

Scott 





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