"one's homeland"

[pynchonoid]

It grounds the Foreword in a post-9/11 present (not to
exclude other references) that includes "fascistic"
(as Pynchon defines it in the Foreword) US government
actions similar to those of WWII Britain, echoing the
comparisons that have been made between Bush and
Churchill since 9-11, and preparations for the recent
war on Iraq. Pynchon's critique of post-9/11 domestic
and foreign US policy -- in this passage but, more
important, throughout the Foreword -- couldn't be
clearer, as so many readers and reviewers note. It's
only in this hothouse that a handful of readers  
claim that Pynchon does not refer to the post-9/11
present in his Foreword to _1984_.


pynchonoid:
> <<Don't suppose that "the moment enemy bombs begin
> to
> fall on one's homeland, altering the landscape and
> producing causalities among friends and neighbors"
> has
> anything to do with the bombs being prepared  for
> use
> against Iraq last fall when the War and Pynchon's
> Foreword to _1984_ were being prepared for mass
> consumption.>>

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> And if it does, plug into your reading of the
> passage, and what does the
> passage then say about such?
> 




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