Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[pynchonoid]

--- David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  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.


I wonder. I don't know anybody like that. 

Quoting Pynchon as counterpoint to the news often
generates threads in which some interesting
conversation manages to take place, which doesn't seem
an inappropriate activity for PYNCHON-L. 

I think Pynchon has seen into the heart of War and
that one of the things he sees there is reflected in
this passage. You may interpret this or that or
whatever as you like, of course.

"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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