Foreword, the inevitable backlash

[Dave Monroe]

Sorry, collateral damage, friendly fire (now THERE'S
an oxymoron if ever there was one, apologies to our
friendly--and fiery?--cohost).  Will send condolences,
reparations to yr next of kin.  Your subject heading
just seemed the most appropriate here, is all ...

--- Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> 
> > You guys are all about the avoidance, aren't you?
> > But's it's all fallen into the usual pattern so
> > far, so ... so it's Pynchon, deal with it ...
>
> I did start by discussing the Foreword from the
> point of view of Pynchon himself, as a text by
> Pynchon. Called upon to elaborate I did so in the
> interests of clarity.

And this is precisely the situation I refer to ...

> So far I have been challenged on my reading of
> Orwell (even though that reading was clearly part
> of a response to P's text).  I have been
> challenged on my approach to reading per se. So far
> no one has commented on what I wrote about P
> himself. Is that my fault?

Not at all, Paul, not at all.  Thanks ...

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