PS: A more World-centric guess at other prophetic writers and books.

[Mark Thibodeau]

Wait... 1984 is a bad book now?

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 9:29 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> BE and IV, Lot49, and maybe VL, though VL does dance into Japanese,
> don't, as the great books do, estrange and alienate us from our world,
> from the familiar, from the mapped and mappable, from our lives and
> the histories that anchor us in time, with a poetic vision that,
> paradoxically brings us back, as we exit the theater, back to our
> world but with a new and uncommon, distinctive and enlarged view of
> our lives, the beauty, complexity, and grace of life.
>
> So Orwell may be prescient and prophetic but 1984, a great "bad book"
> doesn't do this. AtD does.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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