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Priming the Pump of War:
Toward a Post-Ethnic, Post-Racial Fascism
by Dion Dennis [...] 


> 'Cos I finally have it in hand again, from Terry
> Reilly, "A Couple-Three Bonzos: 'Introduction,' Slow
> Learner and 1984," Pynchon Notes 44-45 (Spring-Fall
> 1999), pp. 5-13 ...
[...]
> "I argue that Pynchon took the title Slow Learner
> from
> Orwell's 1984 and that the narrative voice of
> 'Introduction' is a reshaping of the voices of
> Ronald
> Reagan and the reformed Winston Smith. Read not a s
> a
> traditional introduction but rather as a short story
> or metafictional short stry, 'Introduction' emerges
> as
> an experiment in narative, shaped in Pynchon's
> version
> of Newspeak.... a caricature or parodic miniature of
> confessional language in America in
> 1984--Reaganspeak
> or Reaganese.  'Introduction' is a piece of
> subversive
> nostalgia, and in Slow Learner, Pynchon challenges
> and
> critiques traditional narrative forms.

-Doug




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