Ethical Diversions

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 21 11:34:15 CDT 2006


Neither Pynchon nor his readers, however, can plead
ignorance.  And that's the important part there ... 

You might, however, want to consider your (vastly
revised, and, in my opinion, vastly improved, over the
years) take on all this in light of Orban's comments
about Weisenburger.  Or maybe I will, who knows ...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
> 
> I agree that the other uses of the noun "holocaust"
> (small "h") in the novel carry with them a reminder
> for the reader of the Holocaust (capital "H"). It
will
> always be a loaded word for us. But it wasn't a 
> loaded word at the time when the events being
> described in the novel were happening ...

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