BtZ42 this section

[Mark Kohut]

Here in this section, perhaps,  a 'mythic' attempt---those Old North
Fairytales---, via depth psychology, to say something about 'the heart of
Nazism' . which included the extermination of Otherness, within the
overarching evisceration of the modern WarState...three Oven uses including
the "oven-state" [another double meaning, I suggest] and the word holocaust
used to describe weather.
And about the extermination of a race, and the continuation of the Hereros
story, another attempted extermination and the Elect and preterites and all
of that Binary judging at the deepest cultural levels.....

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 8:32 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:

> I still have doubts whether it's about (or even if it includes) the
> Holocaust. Here the central act of mass murder is the series of V2 attacks
> against London. It is not that Pynchon was insensitive, but his sensitivity
> was specifically American. War is Business.  "Jews are negotiable." Which
> does not mean he (the implied author)  ​is inhumane but simply he cannot
> reconstruct the experience and logic of raw, bloody totalitarianism, where
> business means nothing and the laws of organizational sociology don't
> apply. Like in the Soviet scenes, where, quite unlike the hyperrealism of
> the London scenes, he doesn't make any effort at all to reconstruct
> Stalin's Russia.
>
> The "Jews are negotiable" concept, by the way, might have come from the
> proposed "Blood for Trucks" transaction in wartime Budapest, which became
> public knowledge with the Eichmann trial.
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