a fascist by any other name

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu May 8 23:13:45 CDT 2003


IF YOU  ONLY HAD AN ASS. 

pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> --- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> > His foreword could have been written prior
> > to
> > 9/11, and he wouldn't have to change one word.
> 
> Can't agree with that.  Having written his novels,
> _Vineland_ in particular, Pynchon  gets the assignment
> to introduce a new edition of _1984_, certainly, but
> without 9-11 he writes a different foreword. Without
> 9-11, Thomas "a screaming comes across the sky"
> Pynchon is the wrong man to provide context for _1984_
> at a moment when tens of milions of people around the
> world condemn the US for its aerial terrorizing of
> Afghanistan then Iraq, blood for oil, naked US
> imperialism, swaggering macho monopoly capitalists
> with weapons of mass distruction at their command, and
> observing that the convergence of computer and
> communications technologies now permits -- in the US
> as in no country before -- government and corporate
> leaders to know intimate secrets of private behavior
> and manipulate them in a way that puts Their
> motivation of Pirate Prentice to shame.
> 
> What other living author writing in English could do a
> better job of ushering in an American (and British,
> when the British edition appears later this year)
> reader into the world of _1984_?  (If you choose to
> suggest another author, you have to be specific why
> and use the author's works for justification.)
> 
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