Pynch-analogy (was

[Dave Monroe]

Let me know exactly how either I or Orban have much
disgreed with what's below.  Exceptvfor that "no
inkling," of course.  Orban catches some nuances I'm
glad to have pointed out, and duscusses them in a
context of particular appeal to me (de Certeau's
tactics, Levinas' ethics).  Meanwhiile, my constant
objection here is, EVERY element of those novels,
stories, et al., is worth commenting on (the word
"holocasut" itself shows up at least a half-dozen
tiems, for example, in seemingly unrelated, but hardly
unallusive, contexts; then there are the rather more
refernecs to actual elemnts of The Holocaust, so ...).
 My irritation, the strange resistance to that very
reasonable assertion ...

Not sure what/who those "No"s were in refernce to,
directed at.  Me, I can't possibly raed evrything
posted here, I get several dozen to hundreds (at the
least) messages a day, so ...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> OK then, as the Holocaust is to GR, the American
> Civil War is to M&D.  That is, in both cases the
> reader has full access to historical data which is
> immensely and absolutely relevant to the scenario
> Pynchon depicts (WWII and the Mason-Dixon Line
> respectively), and about which the characters in
> the novel, and the narrative itself, appear to have 
> no inkling. In both novels this dramatic irony
> creates a tension in the act of reading, and
> incredible poignancy.

This still leaves both The Civil War and The Holocaust
relevant, peculiarly  so ...
 
> It's one of the elements of Pynchon's best work, if
> not *the* element, which makes it great.

It's what Orban considers to constitute Pynchon's
ethical orientatio to, treatment of The Holocaust ...

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