1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

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In a message dated 5/8/2003 8:52:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
malignd at yahoo.com writes:


> And so you label such discourse and the publications
> that provide them--The New Yorker, the New York Review
> of Books--as elitist and coopted, outlets for the
> scoring of "contoversial" points.
> 

They are elitist and co-opted- thoroughly dependent
on the status quo- are you suggesting they are not? 


> You're point is patently foolish, and reveals an
> all-but-total ignorance of the writers you name, but
> it would have been fun to see you actually try to make
> it with some discussion of the articles you so readily
> dismiss.

I'm listening. Make your points if you can. I'll respond.

> It's easy to posit but difficult to say with any
> authority where Pynchon stands politically in other
> than the most extremely general sense, in that his
> contributions are infrequent and, when offered,
> unspecific when not vague (when not jejune like his
> comments in the Playboy interview).

Jejune? Gelid, perhaps, like the artic sun. But it
is patently simple to trace Pynchon's political bent.
Only a someone determined to be a "contrarian"
could possibly miss his arc. He makes his sympathies
pellucidly clear.   

 If if you find> 
> his perspective fascinating, one concludes you're
> rather easily fascinated.

I've always taken candy from strangers, but that's
another story...

"The best way to ensure the cobwebbing of your ideas is
to withdraw or refrain from challenge and debate."

Unless, of course, one is in sympathy with all those
'passed over' denied the opportunity to give voice to their 
ideas. Challenge and debate work fine among equals.

respectfully 


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