"1984"; perhaps a few more TRP resonances?

[Mark Kohut]

yes, forgot to note what Campbel just did herein: Julia refers to the Party
as Them......(which sure made me think of They in GR)

Also forgot to mention that blue is also the color of the Party's mandatory overalls....

--- On Thu, 7/30/09, Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: "1984"; perhaps a few more TRP resonances?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 9:38 PM
> Books have been hunted down and
> destroyed, even in the Prole quarters.
> 451, Brave New World, Iron Heel, Dystopian trope. Of course
> the
> satirical Syme, like the linguist of the rocket text in GR
> and the
> linguist in M-D who is called upon to read the brow of the
> whale, is
> writing the new dictionary, the 11th edition is
> definitive—it’s a
> reverse OED that destroys words or removes them from the
> lexicon.
> Julia shocks Winston with her lexicon; her course language
> and use of
> profanity; her Black Market dealings; she refers to the
> Party as Them
> (capital T).  Quack-talk, quack …Syme read too many
> books at the
> Chestnut Tree Café …said things that were better left
> unsaid
> …vaporized.   Another book about the Proles, the workers
> ….and
> Betrayal.
> 
> The architecture, as a noted, from the Romance Hunchback,
> where
> architecture is killed by books, to the Modern and
> Postmodern
> Romances, where it remains a haunted and gothic structure,
> incest, all
> the trappings of Walpole, Radcliffe, and the American
> Gothic operate,
> the class and Catholic gothic elements are present  but in
> 1984 … One
> can not even tell from the Architecture, which is defined
> as Middle
> Age Architecture or Post-Revolution Architecture, nothing
> of any value
> was produced during the Centuries of Capitalism  (Signet
> Part One VIII
> ).
> 
> Aquarela do Brasil
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Remember the pervasiveness of the color "blue" in
> Vineland, which we explored?
> >
> > Well, in 1984, some people are 'blue with fright' and
> there is the image of 'the blue tongue of a hanged
> man'--hangings being part of cultrual entertainment.
> >
> > Dust on everything is the pervasive 'coloring' in
> 1984.
> >
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> >
> > Remember the book with no name in AtD? There is a book
> without a title in 1984: it is called The Book. It is a
> compendium of all the heresies.
> >
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> > Remember the 'spiral staircases' in AtD?  There is
> this in 1984 (also fore-echoing the beginning of GR? ):
> "father's hand clutching his own as they hurried down, down
> into some place deep in the earth, round and round a spiral
> staircase which rang under his feet."
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