unthinkable thoughts
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Sat May 10 10:56:20 CDT 2003
On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 11:14, Terrance wrote:
>
> I was thinking on how we might give old tommy a way out of this essay.
> Not that it's shitty, but he does make a few mistakes that are so very
> embarrassing. he could have stuck it up on the fridge and asked his
> Family & Friends to read it over for him or something. any way, as to
> newspeak, it's possible that tommy might not be trivializing orwell's
> concerns about language, but only having a bit of fun.
that some of the gaffes might actually be pynchonean humor naturally
occurred to me. However if this is the case he's seriously misjudging a
significant portion of his readership's ability to "get it."
P.
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