Guernica, prelude to The Blitz

[Terrance]

> 
> Pynchon is himself a perpetual dissident, refusing in this Foreword to
> write what some would wish him to write. 


Gee, I don't know how you came to this opinion, Paul, but perhaps you
have some reason for it. I don't think of Tom as a perpetual dissident.
Why do say he is?  What is it that he was expected to write? Who
expected him to write it? 

PS I expected him to say something about how the USA is now a
super-arrogant power and that the government is more fascist today than
it has been since 1984, but of course he disappointed me. But who the
hell am I?