Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Paul Nightingale]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of s~Z
> Sent: 22 May 2003 03:59
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon
> 
> >>>What we've been discussing is whether Pynchon meant to allude to
9/11
> and
> Bush's government (and if so, what he's actually saying about them),
or
> whether he didn't, and that what he has written simply evokes 9/11 and
> Bush
> for some readers, though not for others.<<<
> 
> And the arguments for allusion become increasingly vague when the
question
> is posed, "What point is being made with the allusions, and what is
the
> support for these points in the essay?" Nothing but no-replies to this
> specific question. A lot of 'evidence' for allusions. Zilch evidence
for
> the
> point of them. None. From anyone.

Against my better judgement perhaps ... I beg to differ. I've no
intention of knocking myself out on this one (again) so you'll have to
content yourself with re-reading what I wrote last time. Your baseless
assertion is a good example of how history might be written: say
something enough times and hope it's accepted as 'truth'. Happens quite
often round these parts, I've noticed. As John Ford might have put it,
the legend is bigger than the facts.