1984 Foreword

[David Morris]

This was not flamebait.  It was reasoned argument supported by text.  Your
Doug-cheerleading section can't overcome those facts.

--- slothenvypride <slothenvypride7 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> best
> 
> 
> 
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