1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[pynchonoid]

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:>  
> If there is such a trend in P's fiction where on
> earth do we find an
> America that is more Democratic? 

I call it a "trend" away from democracy because US
history (and pre-US American history) shows
conflicting trends, or tendencies, some towards a more
democratic system and some toward a more "fascistic"
one. It's complicated, multi-dimensional, ambiguous.

> The fictional America of Dixon and Mason is "another
> slave colony."  

That's part of the story, but that's not the
experience of every American of course, not in the
1760s of M&D, the 1960s of GR, the 1980s of Vineland,
or the present in which Pynchon writes a Foreward to
_1984_.



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