Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[jbor]

>> I think Otto did offer the argument that Pynchon is
>> using the "allusions" to 9/11 and suchlike as warnings
>> in much the same way that Orwell's novel
>> serves as a warning.
 
on 23/5/03 12:00 AM, Otto wrote:
 
> Exactly. For me that's the point being made.
> Some get it, some not, that's all, no deficient readings.
> But if I'm totally wrong we have to go back to the
> initial post asking more or less: What the heck he's
> talking about in this paragraph?

You harangue s~Z for this, but what's so different about you implying here
that a case hasn't been made for what the paragraph, sans any allusion to
9/11 and the Patriot Act, is actually talking about?

The reception of Orwell's "dissident" stance during WW II. England during
the Blitz. Generalisations about people's responses in times of war and
"emergency". The Conservative/Labour war cabinet lead by Churchill.

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