Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[pynchonoid]

But defense contractors and others do make money from
war, Terrance; your comments may contain some
entertainment value, but they do not address the fact
that defense contractors and systems integrators and
infrastructure engineering firms and many others reap
huge sums from war, money that goes into the pockets
of their top managers, shareholders, service providers
of all sorts. 


T:
> Can you imagine a journalist actually trying to get
> this passage into
> any repectable newspaper or journal? 

Yes. 

Of course this post isn't intended for publication in
a newspaper or journal, it's for PYNCHON-L. Completely
different audience and publishing model. 

But kournalists do quote and refer to Pynchon quite
often; I almost always point these out in Pynchon
Mention posts, you can find them in the P-list
archives.  Or, just go to Google and plug "Pynchon" in
the news search engine, <http://news.google.com/>

> > "Don't forget the real business of the War is
> buying
> > and selling. The murdering and the violence are
> > self-policing, and can be entrusted to
> > non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime
> death is
> > useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as
> > diversion from the real movements of the War. It
> > provides raw material to be recorded into History,
> so
> > that children may be taught History as sequences
> of
> > violence, battle after battle, and be more
> prepared
> > for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a
> > stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows,
> to
> > try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're
> still
> > here to gobble it up. The true war is a
> celebration of
> > markets." (Gravity's Rainbow, p. 105)
>

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