1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[Dave Monroe]

As often but not always, in both Pynchon and Orwell,
the latter case being precisely Pynchon's subject
throughout, the former a tantalizing--and
pluasible--possibility.  "The dissident Left" vs. "the
official Left" (ix).  Cooptation of dissidence,
resistance, subversion, et al.  It is no stretch to
apply much of what is said about 1984 here to
Gravity's Rainbow, or Vineland, in particular.  On
other fronts, "Liberal" is often as much a slur when
uttered by Marxists as it is by Republicans.  For
example ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> But, as often in his fiction also, the bulk of
> Pynchon's political swipes in the Foreword seem
> directed at the political Left which, as always, is
> proving a little tough for some here to acknowledge
> and accept.

That "The Left" is not the monolithic entity, that it
is not "an entity" at all, any more than "The Right"
is, or that the binary itself is hardly all the case
there is, seems actually to be what "some"--e.g.,
you--have difficulty recognizing here.  Please, don't
be passive with your aggression, name names, state the
facts, make yr case, whatever.  And keep in mind, none
of you have any idea of what my actual political--and
very littel idea of what any of my other--beliefs,
much less practices, might actually be ...



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