The New York Times Magazine, 9/29/96

[davemarc]

"What works created in the late 20th century will still be discussed,
viewed, read and cherished 100 years from now?"

Bookwise, Cynthia Ozick picks "Humboldt's Gift" by someone named Saul
Bellow.  Senior book critic Michiko Kakutani chooses Don DeLillo's "White
Noise."  And photographer-author Luc Sante selects "Gravity's Rainbow."

"Just as Homer was vital through the Dark Ages not just for his poetry but
because his epics served as encyclopedias of how life had once been lived,
instructing benighted readers on how to conduct wedding feasts or equip
sailing ships, so 'Gravity's Rainbow' will be the totem of a sort of cargo
cult.  Readers of the future, starved and all but cretinized by
merchandising and technology and religion and entertainment, figuratively if
not literally living in caves, will dissect it for clues, refer to it like
an almanac, plan their lives on its basis, imagine they could reconstruct
the 20th century from its pages."

Hey, looks like we're ahead of the curve...or is it the rainbow?

davemarc