"fascistic disposition" paragraph

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 10:47, jbor wrote:
> 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")

Only problem for me is, in places the forward DOES sound like a bit of a
rant.

But even give this unfortunate fact, I think we need to give the Pyncher
the benefit of the doubt and assume you are correct in your conclusion.

P.