1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[pynchonoid]

> Still, it's funny the way you guys present as
> unable
> to decipher Pynchon's Foreward, yet never hesitate
> to
> pontificate on the meaning of the murkiest passages
> in
> Pynchon's fiction. Do your brains somehow stop
> working when you try to read his non-fiction?

This remains the question that you seem afraid to
answer.

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> A.  I can't speak for Paul or Terrance or whoever
> else
> you see me in cahoots with, but your saying I "never
> hesitate to pontificate ..." etc. is baseless.

Except for those times you do pontificate, you mean.

> 
> And however funny you find it, the exchange on the
> meaning of the passage in question has been going on
> for two days now, with no consensus among some eight
> or so respondents as to what precisely he's saying.

Wrong. A few people who adopted this pose during the
SLSL now insist this Foreward can't be understood
(without reading it all, of course, and quite
obviously showing they can understand the Foreward
well enough to dissect and distort in order to prove
one or another prejudice they hold about Pynchon's
writing) and trips over each other trying to chop up
and blend Pynchon's words and phrases in ways that
purport to demonstrate how they can't understand it. 
Meanwhile, other P-listers manage to address the
Foreward directly and discuss it.

> You would seem to be one of the few who find it
> crystal clear. 

You would seem to be wrong, as I've expressed no
particular opinion yet, because.... 

>Interesting that you've offered not
> a
> word as to what it is he is saying.

Because unlike you and the other pontificators, I'm
waiting to get a copy of the book and read the
Foreward in its entirety instead of prematurely
offering opinions that aren't grounded in a thorough
reading of the Foreward.  



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