Manson Cult; was Golden Fang

[alice wellintown]

Pynchon's historisizing is not unusual at all. It's actually quite
common. In fact, American Literature is full of obscure and
marginalized histories. Again, P's historisizing is a lot like
Hawthorne's and Melville's or, the example I provided recently,
William Carlos Williams (Paterson). That he selects the Herero or the
Mason and Dixon Line over the Holocaust or the Civil War is not
surprizing at all. What's odd, and I think absurd, is to argue that
he's actually written about the Holocaust by not writing about it. He
wrote about the Herero, Dude. Isn't that kinda cool? Why readers
reject what is on the pages for what is not,  tells us more about the
readers than the author.

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