Orwell & Nineteen Eighty-Four

[Richard Romeo]

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>  snip There's a kind of > reversal. Apparently
>despite its ubiquitousness and potential for tyranny 
> doublethink is in fact unsustainable. It has in fact
> died out we learn after finishing the story proper.
>To top this off Pynchon quotes Orwell something
> to the effect that slavery (and what was Big
> Brotherism but a slave state) is not sustainable
>either. This is exceedingly good news and something
>we must not become too complacent about..
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It does meld well with the speech at the end of
Vineland about karmic readjustment, that those who
upset the balance by evil doing will sure reap a
powerful reaction in some form. I don't think anyone
could have expected a somewhat positive feel to an
intro involving a book like 1984.

Jim Knipfel in the recent issue of NY Press reviews
Pynchon's intro and 1984 (www.nypress.com)

rich




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