Ethical Diversions

[Paul Mackin]

On Jun 22, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Peter E. Zelz wrote:

> 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
>
>


I agree.

On other hand, no great problem in asking why it wasn't so long as no  
implication is carried that it should have been or we might have  
wanted it to be.

Not that is wasn't :-)
>
>> [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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