Playboy Japan interview

[Carvill John]

Well, exactly. That 1984 intro was, for simple folk like me who've always 
harboured this kinky idea that Pynch was some sorta lefty, equivalent to 
suspecting someone of being a secret smoker then rounding a corner to find 
them impatiently unwrapping a pack of Marlboro reds.


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>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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