Foreword "Goofy Mustaches"

[Terrance]

Regrettably, one must still insist that 1984 and GR, are works of
literature and not politics. So many of our fellow P-listers can't help
but approach  anything written anywhere determined to use it as
propaganda for one side against the other. 

Read the book. Give it a shot. 
Why did you lie it? Or why didn't you? 

1984 is a good novel. It's no Gravity's Rainbow. But it's pretty cool. 

Pynchon's foreword is old hat. What doe she say? Not much that hasn't
been said over and over again. 


Cyrus wrote:
> 
> Terrance wrote:
> 
> >1984 is  not about government control or the Bush government. And I
> >don't know if you have read the entire Pynchon Foreword (or the novel),
> >but it does  not focus on this particular  aspect (it's a particular
> >aspect not what the novel is About) of the novel.
> >
> >1984 is a work of literature.  It is a novel that is tangled in English
> >Literature. To read this novel as some prediction about our times is to
> >play O'Brian's part. Read it. If you don't wake up with Shakespeare on
> >your lips, read it again.
> >
> >
> 
> Where did you get all this stuff, man? I never mentioned Bush in my
> post, nor do I think it's any kind of "prediction" about our times.
> Leave that for Nostradamus enthusiasts. I've read 1984 a few years back,
> thank you. It's beautiful. Yes, it's literature, fiction, if you like.
> That's why it's beautiful. But government control is still a major theme
> in it -- yes, yes, I know, "about" is maybe too strong a word, but I
> thought this would be clear.
> 
> Cyrus