Boomer myopia

[Monte Davis]

> "Gravity's Rainbow, while ostensibly about World War II, was 
> actually about American Cold War hegemony and Vietnam" 

Yes, rampant Boomer myopia there. Heaven forbid that Pynchon or anyone else
should consider World War II to have been a greater or more far-reaching
historical convulsion than Vietnam.

Twisting the Iceland spar a bit for another angle: my brother (who served in
Vietnam in 1968-69) feels his blood pressure rise whenever he hears someone
describe that as a war "that tore America apart." As he says, there were
several other countries ahead of us in line for that description...