Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 22:18, barbara100 at jps.net wrote:
> And why do we rely just on the text to decipher meaning? 

You mean besides Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.

Oh, never mind.


> Did Pynchon only
> rely on text for his Foreword? Didn't he lend a lot of historical support
> in telling us about Orwell?  I think context and history should matter
> along with text. 
> But, Terrance, really, a lot of it is there in the text too.  And you know
> it's weighing on his mind. Living so close, a man with such obvious
> political interest;  it has to be weighing on his mind.  It's weighing on
> all of our minds isn't it?
> 

It IS difficult to concentrate sometimes.


> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> 
> > I wouldn't label an evocation of 9-11 from the Foreword subjective, but
> > it sure ain't 
> > there in the text.
> 
>