IVIV (2) Hope

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Alice:
 
> Responding to Tore's claim that Larry's promo work for the junkie 
> family is a sentimental moment akin to the sentimental moment at the 
> end of this essay, I expalined that the ending of the essay is no more 
> sentimental than the scene ort plot line in the novel.  So the evidence 
> supports my reading and not Tore's. Like that logic?

What you actually said was:
 
"The fact that Pynchon says that we are allowed only *a moment* to swear 
that we will not betray our most sacred and human bond, does not support
the sentimental reading that Tore advanced."
 
How can you call this unsubstantiated allegation an 'explanation'? How is 
it 'evidence' that supports your reading? How is it even logic? You 
obviously read the ending of the Orwell essay differently than I do, 
and that's cool - I think you made a number of good points. But you
haven't really delivered any 'evidence' why we shouldn't read the ending
of the essay sentimentally. As John and I argued, sometimes a moment
is more than enough. Remember Leni in GR: "There is the moment, and its
possibilities" (159). Possibilities to do nothing, sure, but also 
possibilities to do some good for a change. 
 
Calling your subjective take on the Orwell essay 'evidence' doesn't make
it so. 
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