1984 Foreword: allusion

[pynchonoid]

Otto:
> > But there is an allusion to the Patriot Act: "With
> the homeland in danger..."

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> It's unlikely, in my opinion, as I've said before.

...only if you manage to ignore the meaning of
"homeland" "circa 2003". 

Which literary-critical theory requires that a reader
actively suppress knowledge of meaning of a common
word in current widespread use?
 
7,040 occurrences of "homeland" in the 4,500 news
sources indexed by news.google.com today, and more
than 2 million occurences on all web pages indexed by
Google:

<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=usa&q=homeland&btnG=Search+News>
Searched news for homeland. (BETA)  	Results 1 - 10 of
about 7,040. Search took 1.02 seconds.

<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&edition=&q=homeland&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dsearch=Search+the+Web>
Searched the web for homeland.  	Results 1 - 10 of
about 2,030,000. Search took 0.18 seconds



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