1984 Foreword

[slothenvypride]

Blatant flamebait.  You can't stand the thought that you might actually agree with Doug.  And in the context of this discussion, who comes across as well-mannered and well-reasoned, and who comes across as whiny and prissy, hmmm?
 
Score one for Millison, who points out some curiously apt Pynchonalia in the context of a discussion of Orwell's novel.
 
Direct quotations, Rob?  Find a bookstore, or what?


jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:

on 13/5/03 1:42 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

> From
> the start Pynchon's broadening the perspective,
> pulling back from a strict focus on _1984_ itself to
> embrace issues that his work shares with Orwell's, as
> well as bringing what Orwell presents in _1984_ about
> facism into a discussion of what's happening "circa
> 2003" (a phrase he repeats in the Foreword) into
> "looking around us at the present moment".

The first paragraph is a straightforward biographical summary and typical of
the genre. The details Pynchon includes here aren't obscure or unusual.

[snip forced attempt to disagree with Doug really, really hard!]

Who does that sound like, I wonder.

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