Foreword "A Sort of Schizophrenic Manner of Thinking"

[David Morris]

Good Stuff.  The heart of Pynchon's interest.

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>    "The idea seems to have presented Orwell with his
> own dilemma, a kind of meta-doublethink--repelling him
> with its limitless potential for harm, while at the
> same time fascinating him with its promise of a way to
> tarnscend opposites--as if soem aberrant form of Zen
> Buddhism, whose fundamental koans are the three Party
> slogans, 'War is Peace,' 'Freedom is Slavery' and
> 'Ignorance is strength,' were being applied to evil
> purposes." ("Foreword," pp. xi-xii)

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