Orwellian dude...was Religious Fundamentalism in ...

[Dave Monroe]

I read this as a remark on the passage of "Orwellian"
into common parlance, pop culture, even ...

Main Entry: Or·well 
Pronunciation: 'or-"wel, -w&l
Function: biographical name
George 1903-1950 pseudonym of Eric Blair English
author; best known for political fable Animal Farm and
anti-Utopian novel 1984 (1949) that portrayed the
archetypal totalitarian society
- Or·well·ian  /or-'we-lE-&n/ adjective

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=orwellian

"Worldwide familiarity with the word Orwellian is
proof of that influence. Orwellian is used as a
pejorative adjective, to evoke totalitarian terror,
the falsification of history by state-organized lying,
and, more loosely, any unpleasant example of
repression or manipulation. It is used as a noun to
describe an admirer and conscious follower of his
work. Occasionally, it is deployed as a complimentary
adjective, to mean something like 'displaying
outspoken intellectual honesty, like Orwell.' Very few
other writers have garnered this double tribute of
becoming both adjective and noun."

Thought this was interesting as well ...

"Not accidentally, the first use of the phrase Cold
War recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary comes
from an article by Orwell."

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/014/ash.html

Pynchonian, dude ...

http://www.vheissu.be/art/art_eng_SL_hollander.htm

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> While he makes fun of the "Orwellian, dude"
> exclamation ...

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