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[Mark Kohut]

Would be an interesting piece of cultural linguistic analysis that's for
sure.

All I know is in my very parochial Catholic and anti-Semitic world of
Appalachia known as Pittsburgh, it was the synecdoche.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Why ovens became a metaphor for the Holocaust perplexes me since most were
> already dead before they were placed in them (at least in the death camps)
> Misappropriation of the word that became conventional wisdom over time
> most likely
>
> rich
>
>
> > On Jun 19, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The Oven chapter. And GR is NOT about the Holocaust AT ALL? Don't think
> that holds up.
> > How does the Hansel & Gretel Story work as depth metaphor and there are
> other (is another)
> > Great Northern Myth at work.
> >
> > Why a threesome?
>
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