IVIV (2) Hope

[Doug Millison]

Tore quotes Pynchon's intro to 1984:
"a faith so honourable that we can almost imagine Orwell, and perhaps  
even ourselves, for a moment anyway, swearing to do whatever must be  
done to keep it from ever being betrayed."

I read this as one of the bleakest observations in Pynchon's writing.  
We -- the world, the adults in the world -- including the author, know  
that the child's faith is going to be betrayed and we know that we are  
going to betray it, and there's nothing to do be done about that  
except hope that it might turn out otherwise.  Yet hope -- personified  
in Doc's latest client? --  abides all the same.  Inspiring, and  
painful. The way I read it, Pynchon refuses to let us off the hook.