1984 Foreword

[pynchonoid]

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> The first paragraph is a straightforward
> biographical summary and typical of
> the genre. The details Pynchon includes here aren't
> obscure or unusual.

You're satisfied that most high school kids in the US
know that the British Empire once conducted an
international trade in opium?  I guess maybe you don't
live in the US after all. 

>There's no mention of
> September 11, 2001, however.

You've made this assertion quite a few times here. 
Your analytical tools seem relatively useless when
they are unable to detect ironies and references
present in the text -- your methods seem particularly
unsuited to come to grips with Pynchon's work, after
all; they make fine blunt instruments with which to
take your interlocutors to task, but they do a
terrible job at helping you deal with Pynchon's
subtext.


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