A Seer's Blind Spots (washingtonpost.com)

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:23, Steve Maas wrote:
> 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...."


Apologies. I had to find out if anyone reads the links that get posted.
I now see they sometimes do.

This account of Orwell like the Gibson one isn't very flattering. 

Terry Eagleton's included a number of controversial points also,
including the denouncing of pacifists.

P.




> 
> 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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