Boomer myopia

[Otto]

For me there has never been any doubt that it is the way Keith Gessen says.
http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/24728/

Pynchon's WW-2 is in a way Vietnam too, the actual war of the time
period in which the novel was written. If you think back, that was the
time when news about which Vietnamese city had been bombed today were
a daily feature in the evening news, like suicide bombs or the Dow
Jones today.

2006/11/24, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>:
> > "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...
>
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