Ethical Diversions

[Peter E. Zelz]

OK, this is getting tedious.

A.  Who said that the Holocaust had to be an element in every novel set in
WWII?
B.  Why the hell should I care?

Cheers,
z



> [Original Message]
> From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> To: <MalignD at aol.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: 6/22/2006 11:03:20
> Subject: Re: Ethical Diversions
>
> There's an awful lot the narrator/s know/s that teh
> chracters don't.  There's an awuful lt both Pynchon
> and hs readers know, or can at least be expected to
> ...
>
> Keep in mind, all I've been arguing all these, well,
> YEARS now is that the Holocaust is indeed an element
> in Gravity's Rainbow (just as it is in, say, V., or
> The Crying of Lot 49, for that matter), and, as such,
> worth commenting on ...
>
> Of course, I've been arguing that nigh unto EVERYTHING
> in there is worth commenting on, but here's where I've
> been getting some peculiar resitance.  But perhaps
> that at long last has dissipated.  Let me know ... 
>
> --- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> > 
> > I think we agree in sum, but isn't this a little
> > circular?  I.e. -- or, he created characters with
> > limited knowledge so that he wouldn't have to
> > foreground  the Holocaust.
>
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