1984 Foreword

[jbor]

on 14/5/03 5:31 PM, Otto wrote:

> "It just so happens our own brave new world has just shoveled another goofy
> moustache regime into the dustbin of history. Pynchon keeps this
> circumstance consciously in the background through artful allusion, no doubt
> aware that too many parallels have been drawn already between World War II
> and our post-9/11 War Without End. Fortunately he maintains a light touch in
> presenting historical analogies that are worth looking into."
>
> http://www.incontemptcomics.com/archives/000311.html
> 


) Writing for The Guardian, Pynchon surveys

Of course, _The Guardian_ only printed up a bowdlerised version of the
essay, without even ellipses indicating where they made their cuts. The
"fascistic disposition" paragraph reads quite differently, and quite
logically, in its actual, unbowdlerised context in the Foreword. It's worth
repeating this point, particularly in respect of Pynchon's remarks about the
way the media influences "public opinion" through "rewritten history,
official amnesia and outright lying". (xiii)

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