Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[jbor]

> "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?

on 21/5/03 12:29 AM, Malignd wrote:
 
> 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.

Precisely. In fact, the "resistance" bit describes Britain since the
beginning of recorded history, and the "subservience" bit applies since
about 1944 at least).

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