re "not arresting growers, but supervising quality control"

[Terrance]

Malignd wrote:
> 
> <<Why is your guess about what P did any more
> reasonable than Doug's.>>
> 
> Because it is a fact needing no speculation that
> Pynchon "chose to begin his piece on Orwell with
> Orwell's parentage, noting the colorful detail of his
> father's employ in the Opium Department."

Obviously it's a fact that P chose to begin his piece with Orwell's
parentage, but your point was that it was reasonable to speculate at to
why he did. My point is that your guess about why P did what he id is no
 more reasonable than Doug's.