"Orwellian, dude!"

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: "Orwellian, dude!"


> --- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote
> >
> > P is also arguably mocking the use unto
> > meaninglessness of the word "Orwellian," not unlike
> > "Kafkaesque," which means a dozen different things
> > to
> > a dozen different people, many of whom have never
> > read
> > a word of Kafka (or Orwell).
>
> Where, in the Foreword, does Pynchon mention Kafka?
>

Well, Doug, seems if we're on the "same side" saying the foreword does evoke
post-9/11 USA, but I cannot understand that you're playing the fool by
posting such silly questions which are only making it more difficult to
convince the ones who think he his not.

I'm not sure if I agree to MalignD that P. is mocking here but his
equalisation of "orwellian" and "kafkaesque" as words of an inflationary
usage is absolutely correct and makes sense.

Otto