meta [part the second]

[David Morris]

This was exactly the point with which I was just going to respond to
Mr. Tracy's objection to my last post.

Statements like "innate corruption at the center of the Second World
War" NOT referring to Hitler, but to GR's "the real business of" and
"what it really wants" and "all theater" show clearly the danger of
taking Pynchon too literally, like I just said.  Mark falls into the
same trap with Pynchon's Luddism tropes.  I don't think that either
person is a fool.  But sometimes admiration of Pynchon slips into
minor idolatry, and then to silly statements like the one below.

Pynchon makes art.  Not history, and not proscriptions for life in
general.  And nearly every point he makes bout something in his texts
is countered with opposing or alternate views somewhere nearby in the
same text.  Isolate and believe them at your own peril.

David Morris

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:44 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>Robin:
>> 'here are many striking things about Gravity's Rainbow. For me the sense of the innate corruption at the center of the Second World War was particularly intense.'
> ________
> at the center of the Second World War was Adolf Hitler--please xplain. you can tease out all that bad shit that went down--corporate collusion and the like but you can't lose the sense of a fight worth fighting, either.
>
> those GIs, Tommys, and Ivans did die for something. that was apparently the last time, alas.
>
> rich
>