aw. RE: Von Braun in the News

[David Morris]

On Jan 1, 2008 8:11 AM, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Kai sez:
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>  > Did anybody else realize that Pynchon --- on his myspace profile --- names von Braun, along with Scott Fitzgerald, as his "hero"?
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> 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.
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> 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.

Well said.  But, really, can anyone imagine Pynchon wanting a MySpace
page for himself?  Truly absurd.