A Seer's Blind Spots (washingtonpost.com)
Steve Maas
tyronemullet at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 25 10:23:03 CDT 2003
Hope I don't sound like I'm nitpicking here, but the article actually uses
the, to my ear at least, less loaded and more playful phrase "Thomas Pynchon
has broken cover...."
The generally interesting article ends with the somewhat dispiriting quote
below.
Steve Maas
"A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying," [Orwell] once
wrote, "since any life when viewed from inside is simply a series of
defeats."
P.M. wrote:
>Interesting article on Orwell in today's Washington Post. Pynchon gets
>brief mention as "coming out of hiding" to writing the foreword to
>anniversary edition.
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28471-2003Jun24.html
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