Fact and friction

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Fact and friction
>
> There's a sting in that final sentence as s~Z has pointed out, one which
> resonates with some of the ambiguities relating to our current global
> situation addressed at several points earlier in the essay. Pynchon can
> envisage himself, and his reader, like Orwell's Winston, and like Orwell
> himself, perhaps, "for a moment anyway, swearing to do whatever must be
done
> to keep" our children's world, a world of "human decency", from being
> "betrayed". By the Stalins and Saddams, and their proteges, he would seem
to
> be implying, much more so than the Churchills or Bushes.
>
> best
>

Where do you get that impression - expressed in your last sentence - from?

Otto