"Orwellian, dude!"

[pynchonoid]

Even considering Mackin's irresistable need to
disagree with me, this is an exceptionally foolish
statement. 

Safe to say that the paragraph that follows Pynchon's
Bill-and-Ted joke is part of the context of that joke.


Unless Mackin is playing with a special definition of
"context".
 

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote
> You call this context? 

con·text    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kntkst)
n. 

1.	The part of a text or statement that surrounds a
particular word or passage and determines its meaning.
2.	The circumstances in which an event occurs; a
setting.

[Middle English, composition, from Latin contextus,
from past participle of contexere, to join together  :
com-, com- + texere, to weave; see teks- in
Indo-European Roots.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the
English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights
reserved.
[Buy it]

context

\Con"text\, n. [L. contextus; cf. F. contexte .] The
part or parts of something written or printed, as of
Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted
sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as
to throw light upon its meaning.
According to all the light that the contexts afford.
--Sharp.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ©
1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

context

\Con*text"\, v. t. To knit or bind together; to unite
closely. [Obs.] --Feltham.
The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by
commerce and contracts. --R. Junius.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ©
1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

context

\Con*text"\, a. [L. contextus, p. p. of contexere to
weave, to unite; con- + texere to weave. See Text.]
Knit or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.]
The coats, without, are context and callous. --Derham.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ©
1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

context

n 1: discourse that surrounds a language unit and
helps to determine its interpretation [syn: linguistic
context, context of use] 2: the set of facts or
circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the
historical context" [syn: circumstance]

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

context


That which surrounds, and gives meaning to, something
else.
<grammar> In a grammar it refers to the symbols before
and
after the symbol under consideration. If the syntax of
a
symbol is independent of its context, the grammar is
said to
be context-free.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, ©
1993-2003 Denis Howe

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