Pynchon's "knewspeak"

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on 2/22/03 10:14 AM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> This reminds me.  Someone (Terrance?) posted something
> on Milton 'n' religion a while back that I can't
> locate now, but something along the lines of ...
> 
> http://www.columbia.edu/~fs10/armin.htm
> 
> http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/Beitchman.html
> 
> ... which might be of interest.  As might be ...
> 
> Reilly, Terry.  "Gravity's Rainbow, The Anabaptist
> Rebellions in Germany, 1525-35, and the
> Unfortunate Traveller."  Oklahoma City University
> Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1999): 705-27.
> 
> http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/reilly24.ht


Liked the Reilly thing.
> 
>...... but his emphasis on pop culture and low humor Disneyfies
> Reformation millenarianism, transforming it into a type of Doomsday theme park
> in which the Apocalypse is both entertaining and is always occurring. In such
> an environment, the past becomes omnipresent and conventional notions such as
> "history," and "future" come to represent "dead tokens of exhausted
> positivism."34