Why I like Fromm's Behind better than P's Prick

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon May 12 11:06:27 CDT 2003



pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> > What are they worshipping in those houses now?
> 
> The Holy Trinity

Winston wondered vaguely to what century the church belonged. It was
always difficult to
determine the age of a London building. Anything large and impressive,
if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as
having been built since the Revolution, while anything that was
obviously of earlier date was ascribed to some dim period called the
Middle Ages. The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced
nothing of any value. One could not learn history from architecture any
more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial
stones, the names of streets — anything that might throw light upon the
past had been systematically altered.
      ‘I never knew it had been a church,’ he said.
      ‘There’s a lot of them left, really,’ said the old man, ‘though
they’ve been put        to other uses.
Now, how did that rhyme go? Ah! I’ve got it!

It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds — scale
models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux
illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like.

Then come--the Space Helmets! GR.296



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