Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

Dave Monroe flavordav at yahoo.com
Fri May 23 10:18:02 CDT 2003


And I've never seen anyone go to so much trouble to
misrepresent anyting I've ever written before.  No,
wait, of course I have, this being The List and all
...

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> 
> I really do have to chuckle when I read the
> "majority/reasonable" view of this passage. I've
> rarely seen so much qualification, parenthetical
> asidation, redefinition of terms etc etc to make a
> case for what is just obvious as hell to any law-
> abiding freedom loving sane individual.

... and not to argue that any "majority" (not my
argument, by the way) is necessarily to be trusted in
matters of interpretation, but this is the only place
I've seen anyone deny any possible allusion to the WTC
et al., and, again, a vocal handful at best.  Again, a
perfectly reasonable reading ...

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