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

jbor at bigpond.com jbor at bigpond.com
Sun Oct 30 14:31:39 CST 2005


Just making the effort to correct Tim's inaccuracy, repeated three or 
so times by him, is all, and to nail down definitions. There are 
certainly direct references to and descriptions of the Dora camp in the 
novel, though not the death camps or the 'Final Solution'.

best

On 31/10/2005 David Casseres wrote:

> Really, folks, is there anything more to be said about the lack of
> direct reference to the Holocaust?  Anything that hasn't been repeated
> several times in this group read?
>
> On 10/28/05, jbor at bigpond.com <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> No, what I wrote in the post you've linked is that "the Final
>> Solution of the Jewish Question' enacted by the SS in the Nazi death
>> camps -- at Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz-Birkenau 
>> and
>> Majdanek, along with Jungfernhof (in Latvia) and Maly Trostinets (in
>> Byelorussia) -- is nowhere described or referred to in the novel."
>>
>> Are you arguing that it is? Where? Or are you now saying that this =
>> "the Holocaust"? But. if you are saying that this = "the Holocaust",
>> then of course it's nowhere described or referred to in the novel, so
>> why can't (or shouldn't) anyone contend what is simply a statement of
>> fact?
>>
>> Let us know what YOUR ground rules are because they keep changing.
>>
>> best
>>
>> On 28/10/2005, at 7:57 PM, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
>>
>>> Rob (Jbor) said it:
>>>
>>> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-
>>> l&month=0510&msg=98699&sort=date
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Keith said:
>>>
>>>> No one said this.
>>>> Email makes for difficult communication.
>>>> On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:39 PM, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
>>>>  But NO one can (or should) contend that the Holocaust is "nowhere
>>>> described or referred to in the novel."
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>




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