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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