Playboy Japan interview

[Ghetta Life]

John,

You've got to disable the MIME-text (use simple text format) for posts to 
the P-list, or else you'll be subjecting us all to this pile of crap that is 
at the bottom of your last post.

Ghetta

>From: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>To: ottosell at yahoo.de, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Playboy Japan interview
>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:29:11 +0000
>
>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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>>Subject: Re: Playboy Japan interview
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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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