Orwell's crystal spirit & Eliot's because I do not hope

[Mark Kohut]

yeah, the feeling of controlled hopelessness.....
that feeling that Slothrop flees from that he has been monitored from the
beginning.
Eckhardt asking about mind destruction, about Pointsman's Foxes being
reduced---via catharsis!--to blank slates, another
way of seeing brainwashing.
The Counterforce equals the bare forked "hope' of 1984's Epilogue.

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 5:10 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reading this time with Orwell, I wonder why more has not been made of
> Orwell's influence on GR. Adams, though much has been made of his
> influence on V., is here too. In the explicit dust that flies in the
> door, in Pointsman's repressed sexual desires.
>
> You want to hear the bomb pass safely overhead and die away into the
> distance before the engine cuts out. In other words, you are hoping
> that it will fall on somebody else. So also when you dodge a shell or
> an ordinary bomb—but in that case you have only about five seconds to
> take cover and no time to speculate on the bottomless selfishness of
> the human being.
>
>
> http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune/AsIPlease19440630.html
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