1984 Foreword

[jbor]

on 14/5/03 2:11 AM, slothenvypride at slothenvypride7 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> [...] "only in order to fuel their own, blatantly self-centred  and
> propagandistic, political agendas [...] Who does that sound like, I wonder."
> 
> 
> Not flamebait, huh?

Not at all. Pynchon's parody targets precisely that sort of shallow-minded
nonsense:

    "Wow, the Government has turned into Big Brother, *just like
    Orwell predicted!* Something, huh?" "Orwellian, dude!" (xvi)

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