NP Re: "1984"

[jbor]

Another classic Doug-tactic: bullying people offlist (and onlist) into
publishing retractions, often when they haven't really said anything which
warrants one. Even more insidious is the way that he will harass new
subscribers offlist about responding to certain posters (myself, MalignD,
others), and then attack them as "ass-lickers" when they fail to conform to
his "friendly" directives. Big Brother indeed!

Hey Doug: how about a retraction of your false accusation that I'm in the
habit of making anti-Semitic slurs?

I won't hold my breath.

best


o.sell at telda.net wrote:

> Doug reminds me offlist to be fair to the Reilly-essay which is ok because
> Reilly really has something to say about the relevance of "1984" for
> Pynchon's fiction concerning "newspeak" and re-writing history.
> 
> Otto
> 
> Doug:
>> I find the essay interesting because it confirms something
>> that I've been thinking about for a long time, that Pynchon's
>> work can be viewed in part as a response to Orwell's.
>> 
> 
> 
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