Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Otto]

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From: "Malignd" <malignd at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon


> <<"The grouping of Britain and the United States into
> a single bloc, as prophecy, has turned out to be
> dead-on, foreseeing Britain's resistance to
> integration with the Eurasian landmass as well as her
> continuing subservience to Yank interests ...."
> (p. xv)
>
> What, if not Tony Blair's policy as the latest example
> of this "subservience" could be meant here?>>
>
> This could have been written with no less coherence
> during the Reagan and Thatcher period or at virtually
> any other time since the end of WWII.
>

Sorry, but I can't remember a special event of the last twenty years I would
apply such a strong expression to.

Otto