1984 Foreword: allusion

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:

 The essay is after [all] about Orwell and his book, not Pynchon and
> his personal views.
> 
> P.

Right. Not to knock Dave Monroe, but Dave is sort of attempting to
re-read the archives now (alluding to, referring to, citing "how things
got started predictably with Doug and the gang of what is it now, 7 or
9? when and we all know that this kind of revisionism has no real
meaning here) as he complains that the debate was rigged, fixed in a
predictable pattern of Doug & Dave against the gang. The truth is Dave
posted the excerpts and asked us to respond to this question: WHat does
the Foreword say about Thomas Pynchon? A beach ball over the fat part of
the plate (or for you baseball challenged members, perhaps a penalty
kick taken by Pele) to the kind of reading Doug excels at. 


PS as john falstaff said, "Dude,  I'm not only ironic and witty in
myself, but the cause and effect that wit is in other men."