re re re re Re: "The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< he includes enough direct references to the Holocaust to nail it for the 
reader, who can safely assume that the novel's settings include the
 death camps,  >>

This seems a good bit of backpedaling from your previous claims that the 
Holocaust was "central" to Gravity's Rainbow, against what any reasonable reader 
would respond, which is that the Holocaust is all but absent from GR.

Joseph Heller was asked why he, a Jew, didn't include mention of the 
Holocaust in Catch 22 and he said that he couldn't include it without making Catch 22 
a very different book from the one he was writing.  That has always seemed to 
me the case with GR as well, along with, perhaps, Pynchon's modesty about 
addressing something which he was without stature (by dint of youth, background, 
experience) to address.