Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 01:57, Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 


This is about as dotty a piece of wisdom as I've heard here in almost a week.
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P.