Pynchon and fascism

[Malignd]

<<... I haven't written what you try (a tad clumsily,
I might add) to say I did write.>>

I wrote:  

<<... it's difficult for me to see any way in which
clarity is gained by treating the Foreword as
fiction.>>

You wrote:  

<<Part of this approach is that one questions the
distinctions usually drawn between different kinds or
genres of writing. Most obviously fact/fiction: I
treat the Foreword as fiction.>>

Sorry if that's a tad clumsy for you, Paul, but I
don't see where you've been misrepresented.  I don't
see on what basis you choose to treat the Foreword as
fiction and I don't see what's clarified by doing so.

<<Other than the "all history is fiction" argument,
which is tedious and unrewarding, I can't see any
basis this approach.>>

<<Again a distortion of what I wrote. I'm not sure I
see a basis in your approach.>>

I'm not distorting what you wrote, I'm suggesting a
possible basis for your approach, for choosing to
treat the Foreword as fiction.  Other than what I'm
offering, I see no basis.  Perhaps you could offer
one.

<< Really.  I think there are any number of
illiterates who might give a fair description of
fascism who "know" fascism in rather more direct
ways.>> 

<<Again a one-dimensional put-down that rests on your
refusal to read and comment on what I've written.>>

You wrote: <<... the only way in which we can know
fascism is through what's written about it, the way
it's represented ...  >>

Perhaps your "we" is more exclusionary than I
presumed.  I do think, however, it's possible to know
fascism more directly.  As a victim of it, for
instance.


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