Rain Taxi Review

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 13:21:42 CST 2006


And, Hey! How about that Holocaust!

On 12/19/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > ... perhaps Pynchon is the only author for whom it doesn't seem odd to feature Franz Ferdinand as a character, set a segment of the novel in the Balkans, including Sarajevo, yet not feature the assassination.
>
> Point is, you KNOW what's going to happen, so ... cf. Mason & Dixon vis a vis The Civil War ...



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