pynchon-l-digest V2 #1795
Jane Sweet
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 29 20:06:58 CDT 2001
Doug Millison wrote:
>
> "Jane":
> >I will never trust the people that keep talking about Nazis
> >and Totalitarianism as if they are George Orwell and we are
> >not living in the free world.
>
> Then why read Pynchon?
Because I don't think P is Orwell and I don't believe we are
living in Stalin's prison world, but in the free world. You
have a very different view of the world.
I don't agree with Pynchon's view, but I don't believe it is
nearly as pessimistic or nihilistic (?) as yours.
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