Pynchon & Orwell

[Doug Millison]

Terrance:
"You keep
talking as if Pynchon has written 1984 and now that it is 1984 Pynchon
should be hailed not the next Orwell, but a Nostradamus/St. John the
Divine."

Well, no, I haven't said that, or anything close.

I do believe that Pynchon does a good job of representing in his fiction
the world in which we live.

You might want to read the article in the current issue of Pynchon Notes,
which I mentioned here not long ago, "A Couple-Three Bonzos:
"Introduction," Slow Learner and 1984" by Terry Reilly.

And I guess you realize it's 2001, not 1984. Hard to keep track when you're
so involved with Uranus, I guess.