Thoughtcrime (Moving on)

[Mike Weaver]

Gotta agree with Quail over the homeland debate - a couple of very good 
points raised but generally, never have so many struggled for so long to 
avoid agreement.

 From what I've read so far the foreword is another expression of P's 
sympathies in line with everything he's written from Vineland onwards. He's 
no polemicist, just a wonderful observer and illustrator of tendencies and 
possibilities at large in the world today.
	We spend some of our time here debating the significance and  dynamics of 
various opposing possibilities, each of us according to our lights.
The texture of the discussion round the forward suggest to me that there 
insufficient substance in it to keep the list fed for very long. Have any 
suggestions been made for the next main course. Some wanted Vineland I 
recall. Possibly appropriate follow on from 1984.

How about we try for a multibook approach - choose a theme, then we all get 
to choose our favoured illustrations of the theme, and if we desire, to 
defend their significance, or celebrate their shape and form. A variant 
would be to have those among us with access to critical writings post their 
favoured texts covering a particular theme, as triggers for discussion.

Ps - having sent from wrong address -resending after looking at todays 
Grauniad:  three letters in response to P's piece last week. Grist for the 
mill.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,952390,00.html