1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[Terrance]

Paul Nightingale wrote:
> >
> My understanding of narrative is that it treats as a text anything that
> might be relevant to our understanding of a topic. 


Well, that's fine with me, but you must know that this use of the term
"narrative" assumes, shall we say, "a linguistic turn" that is at best a
theoretical approach to literature that has been applied to Pynchon &
Co.,  and has never, as far as I'm concerned, been part of his project.
The term "narrative" was around long before the so-called "linguistic
turn," And so while I've no interest in foreclosing your "narrative"
reading of the Pynchon Foreword, I think that it is fair to stand (for
example, as Paul M. has) firmly against your "narrative" approach. Your
narrative approach has tendered a "between the lines" reading and has
jumped to conclusions about _1984_ that simply can not be supported by
the text. I think Paul M., has identified the crux of the
problem--anticapitalism and so on.