1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 11:42, pynchonoid wrote:
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > What IS your point?  Maybe if you'd restate it in
> > understandable
> > language of twenty-five words or less?
> 
> Reality check:  Paul N's point is perfectly clear,

Yes. That the "fascistic disposition" paragraph means a bunch stuff that
Pynchon didn't bother to write down?

P.

> and
> as a long-time P-list participant he'll recognize
> Mackin's tactic for what it is -- just another effort
> to snarl the discussion in trivia and obfuscation, the
> way he helped shut down the SLSL discussion.
> 
> *If* (big if) Paul and Malign and Terrance really
> can't understand what Pynchon writes in this Foreward,
> I suggest the problem is theirs, not Pynchon's.  Steer
> the conversation towards the murkiest passages in a
> Pynchon novel, however, and watch them interpret with
> perfect clarity what an army of Pynchon readers can't
> agree on in a library full of criticism. They're
> howling just a tad too loudly and histrionically,
> don't you think?
> 
> 
> 
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