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

[Meg Larson]

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From: "Meg Larson" <megley1 at chartermi.net>
To: "John Doe" <tristero69 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: "The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1


he sed:

> faintly ironic tones ):
> There may be many reasons for it's exclusion....one,
> perhaps, is that Pynchon has established the peculiar
> intrigue of the plight of the Hereros...another "race"
> that has also had more than its share of abuse and
> terror at the hand of Master Races....in order to
> maintain the Gravity  :  ) of the situation of the
> Hereos, Pynchon wisely avoids attracting the reader's
> attention to the imcomparable massacre of the
> Holocaust...it would detract...also, I think he
> understood that the comical capers, the whimsy burts
> of song, the many other devices of levity and high
> non-seriousness would lose effect if the reader was
> maintaining images of the Ovens in his/her mind...
>
I say:

The fact that GR is not a Holocaust novel per se has always meant, to me,
that the War meant/represented many different things to many people; for
some, it wasn't just (or even) about the Holocaust.  The War was a
displacement of all sorts of foax in all sorts of places, and if one was not
aware of what was happening in the camps, I think it may be because not
every one was concerned about that aspect of the War--they were concerned
about how it affected their own lives in their own place in the world.

What the hell--it's early.
M.

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