Pynchon and fascism

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 09:39, David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> > >>>Deadly boring, like the zen "everything is everything" thing.<<<
> > 
> > Come on Dave, spice us up. Contribute something that meets your standards.
> 
> Of course I knew this would get a rise out of you.  I just can't muster up any
> interest in this lit-crit analysis of the 1984 foreword.  All this
> reader/writer theory does nothing for me.  I think I can read fairly well
> without it.  In fact I think it just gets in the way of a direct experience
> with a text.  But it sounds really smart...
>

Not to worry, David. The day will come when it will no longer be
necessary to keep repeating that there is nothing outside the text and
that everything is fiction. That day will come in about 1993.