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

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 30, 2005, at 9:04 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> Of course I'm not saying that.  But I do think that TRP chose to  
> begin the back at the end of WWII because the focus of the book was  
> not the WWII in and of itself, but rather WWII as the point of  
> origin of the concept of Nuclear Holocaust.  Living in fear of  
> nuclear annihilation is, obviously, a totally different (and vastly  
> better) situation than actually being annihilated in a genocidal  
> holocaust.  No argument there.

OK

By the way, I wasn't just referring to the direct experience of  
genocide but the experience of the  entire populations of the  
affected countries. The Jews did of course have it the worst.


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> ----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> Sent: Oct 30, 2005 6:41 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: "The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1
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> You've not saying are you that the anxiety of living through the
> "nuclear age" 70s was comparable to living in Europe during the war
> years. Different order of magnitude . . .
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