Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Jonathan Hall]

> "What point is being made with the allusions, and what is the
> support for these points in the essay?"

Yes. If you go searching for such evidence you have to ask yourself why just
in case you 'find' some - which is not to say out of hand that it is not
there, merely that 'finding' has a little too much naivete in it.
Is such a search driven by a view of Pynchon as modern-day prophet who must,
then, have made significant declarations on all the dramatic events in our
time?


BTW - William Spanos deals with Moby Dick and the Vietnam War and mentions
GR often, and overuses 'prolepsis' throughout when perhaps he should have
simply come out as a mystic and embraced 'prophecy'. He seems to want to
draw it in to bolster his argument for a poststructuralist Pynchon - his
rather bizarre claim being that the Vietnam War was an enabling condition of
poststructuralist thinking. (William Spanos, The Errant Art of Moby Dick:
The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies)

Jonathan (new around here and a little punch-drunk after a few days
spectating)