"fascistic disposition" paragraph

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: "fascistic disposition" paragraph


> on 10/5/03 5:05 PM, Paul Nightingale wrote:
>
> > Why play a numbers game here? Does it matter how many ("some") people
> > have read the passage this way? Or is it, rather, a question of 'who'? I
> > have no interest in the neverending flamefest that, for many, gives the
> > p-list its raison d'etre.
>
> No numbers game, just an acknowledgement that three or four people, plus
Jim
> Knipfel, have decided, perhaps even independently of one another, that
> "bombs falling" and "homeland" must mean 9/11 and the Patriot Act.
>

Literary interpretation & criticism is no demographic enterprise.

Well, I haven't read Jim Knipfel's review nor Fritz Göttler's article before
I came to the conclusion that this is about America after September 11 as
well as it is about WWII. I guess I've been the first here who said: "My
reading: from the WTC to Ground Zero," but this is no claim for copyright
because it's so obvious.

It looks like if some people on the list have chosen not to interpret the
obvious references in the text this way, but I'm with Paul Nightingale,
Knipfel, Göttler and last not least Kipen, who says: "Pynchon (...) relates
Orwell's anxious age to our own (...)."

>
> But the ad hominem stuff is to be expected. When all else has failed ...
>

Do you mean Terrance's post to me?

> best

Otto