Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Paul Nightingale]

Once again, a complaint that P didn't write the Foreword his critics
wanted to read ...

> 
> 
> I guess as suggested by Terrance and Rob's inputs here the Pincher
> doesn't always think things through too well. A blessing since a
> novelist who tries to be at the same time a philosopher and/or
historian
> isn't going to be a great success.
> 
> 

But not to worry, it's "a blessing" that P doesn't think too well! We'd
hate his "success" to be undermined by too much thinking, after all.

One might state the obvious, and say the Foreword is a 'mere' 20 pages
or so, a short story rather than M&D. Clearly another 40, or even a
hundred, pages would allow P to "think things through" better. And then
some people, I suppose, would complain that his wild rambling could use
careful, even brutal, cruel-to-be-kind, editing.