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[Terrance]

Like Pynchon after him (or now, Foreword him) Orwell's relentless
inquiry into the iniquities of our Modern times led him inevitably to an
analysis of the guilty animal, Man. As an atheist, Orwell didn't need
God. However, he dreaded the deformation of Man, of human nature (he was
a Humanist) and like Pynchon, he traced this deformation to the fallout
of the religious fissions of the modern age. 


s~Z wrote:
> 
> Several posters whose names I do not recognize have been outraged offlist
> that I suggested TRP did not write the foreword. I was joking. Just for the
> record I would like to affirm that I believe that TRP was interviewed in
> Japan's Playboy, that he writes scathing bad raps against organized
> religion, the holocaust is the theme guiding GR, placing cluster bombs in
> the path of oncoming children is a pacifist act, death is final, hell is
> other people, the author of the Gospel of Thomas is Jesus' evil twin, and
> nothingness is completely out of place in wartime theology.