Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Fri May 23 10:40:37 CDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 11:18, Dave Monroe wrote:
> 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

You do seem to get misunderstood about as much as anyone here. Almost as
much at least.

> ...
> 
> --- 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 ...

You accusing someone of deny the adage "anything is possible?"

Or that if you look hard enough you might find a needle in a haystack.

Maybe if this discussion goes on a year or two more something could
possibly turn up. 

P.

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