AtDTDA (2): 31 (34) Vegetarian

[John BAILEY]

That's always been my vague impression, too. The same way he harshly
condemns genocide while retaining a fondness for comical brawling,
perhaps. Systematic or institutionalised violence vs ... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Monroe [mailto:monropolitan at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2007 11:42 AM
To: John BAILEY; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: AtDTDA (2): 31 (34) Vegetarian

--- John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au> wrote:

> ... has just as often offered dire passages described the human 
> slaughter of animals.

I think it's more that rationalization, that industrialization, that
gets to him than anything ...

"... that unshaped freedom being rationalized into movement only in
straight lines and at right angles and a progressive reduction of
choices, until the final turn through the final gate that led to the
killing-floor."  (AtD, Pt. I, Ch. 2, p. 10)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114381

Cf., e.g., ...

"Now remember right after the war, the Nuremberg war trials?  Remember
the photographs of Auschwitz? 
Thousands of Jewish corpses, stacked up like those poor car-bodies.
Schlemihl: it's already started."
(V., p. 314 [current ed.])


 
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