Playboy Japan interview

[Otto]

The reference to the "Guardian" made it even more likely to me that this 
"interview" was authentic (I do not claim that it is!). Not so much 
later the "1984"-intro came out and was -partly- published by the 
"Guardian":

"Now, those of fascistic disposition - or merely those among us who 
remain all too ready to justify any government action, whether right or 
wrong - will immediately point out that this is prewar thinking, and 
that the moment enemy bombs begin to fall on one's homeland, altering 
the landscape and producing casualties among friends and neighbours, all 
this sort of thing, really, becomes irrelevant, if not indeed 
subversive. With the homeland in danger, strong leadership and effective 
measures become of the essence, and if you want to call that fascism, 
very well, call it whatever you please, no one is likely to be 
listening, unless it's for the air raids to be over and the all clear to 
sound. But the unseemliness of an argument - let alone a prophecy - in
the heat of some later emergency, does not necessarily make it wrong."

Thomas Pynchon : "The road to 1984". The Guardian, Saturday May 3, 2003
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/stories/storyReader$123

Chris Broderick wrote:
> I agree with him (or pseudo-him) that
> the Guardian is a better paper than the Times, 
> 
> -Chris


		
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