Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

Otto ottosell at yahoo.de
Wed May 21 10:49:32 CDT 2003


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> --- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:> But from the
> other reviews
> > I've got the impression
> > that not only lunatics who claim that 2003 USA
> > equals Orwell's Oceania think
> > he is indeed referring to 9/11 in his foreword.
>
> When you say "lunatics who claim that 2003 USA
> equals Orwell's Oceania" you're talking about people
> somewhere else, I assume, since nobody has made this
> claim here on Pynchon-L.  I suggested some rough
> parallels, in response to jbor's question when he
> moved the topic from "does the Foreword refer to 9-11"
> to "2003 USA equals Orwell's Oceania"  -- but nobody,
> myself included, is claiming  "that 2003 USA equals
> Orwell's Oceania".
>

You wrote on the 30th:

"In Bush America these days (these days in which
Pynchon writes this Foreward), it would be difficult
to throw a rock and NOT hit somebody "of fascistic
disposition,"

My position from my first post on answering the initial post by MalignD is
quite different. I said that I was amused about the words he has used,
asking (myself) if those who think the gov. is always right might like to be
labeled having a fascistic disposition.

Throwing rocks always makes me think of glass-houses.

Otto




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