Pynch-analogy (was

[jbor at bigpond.com]

That's exactly the point, Dave. I never said that either of you did. So 
what was with all the fuss?

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On 20/06/2006:

> Let me know exactly how either I or Orban have much
> disgreed with what's below.

> --- 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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