Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[David Morris]

This passage is from a NOVEL, a work of FICTION, which has conspiracy and
paranioa as major themes, so it makes sense in that context.  Dows anybody
think Pynchon meant for them to be taken as NON-FICTION?  This passage is just
fine as a paragraph in a fictional world.  Some people are looking to make
Pynchon their personal guru and passages of his fictions as words to live by,
reality be damned, which is truly laughable.

David Morris

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Can you imagine a journalist actually trying to get this passage into any
repectable newspaper or journal? Not that it isn't one of my favorite passages
from GR, but geee wiz.....
>
> > "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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