aw. RE: Von Braun in the News

[Monte Davis]

Kai sez:
  
 > Did anybody else realize that Pynchon --- on his myspace profile ---
names von Braun, along
 > with Scott Fitzgerald, as his "hero"?  
 
Don't be silly. Setting aside the more-than dubious provenance of that
MySpace page... Wernher von Braun was a Bad Man, pure and simple, who (1)
was associated with the only slave-labor enterprise in the Third Reich, (2)
sneaked into the US under false pretenses and spent billions on ICBMs nobody
here wanted, and (3) could receive a complex or multivalent judgment only
from physicists,  historians, and other moral dullards.
 
Any other view might be hazardous to our comfortable little pieties, and
since Pynchon is in the business of making us comfortable, he couldn't
possibly think that way.  .
 
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