"fascistic disposition" paragraph

[jbor]

on 10/5/03 11:47 PM, Otto wrote:

> I can accept when readers fail to see the (possible, maybe wrong)
> connection but I cannot see what's wrong about the discussion.

on 10/5/03 11:47 PM, Otto wrote:

> 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

An example of doublethink?

>From the actual language used in the paragraph, from its themes, style and
tone, from its immediate context in terms of the preceding and following
paragraphs, from the way Pynchon does frame comments about the "present-day
United States" elsewhere in the essay, from the inherent absurdity of
categorising 9/11 alongside WW II or Bush alongside Churchill, and from the
fact that he's writing a Foreword to Orwell's _1984_ and not an op. ed. rant
for Bitchslap.com, any actual reference to 9/11 and Bush in the paragraph in
question seems highly unlikely. (NB "unlikely")

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