Difficult (and something about gravity's speed)

[Paolo Cavallo]

My opinion:

TRP *is* difficult! He himself said that. You have to read his stuff very
slowly and carefully to follow the various threads - I can't follow the "just
flow in the stream" invitation by someone. Important characters cross the scene
at every page almost without notice, and are back to front 200 pages later.
It's charming, it's even wonderful, surely it's well worth the effort, but it's
definitely not easy.
Paul Celan and Dylan Thomas are very difficult great poets. They admitted so.
Nobody can say "just follow them - don't ask nothing" and pretend to understand
them and their urge to communicate something very important and very hard to
grasp. My best liked novels by Garcia Marquez are "El otoño del patriarca" and
"Cronaca de una muerte anunciada": how could I deny that the former is
difficult and the latter is easy? Can you "just follow the stream" of "El
otoño" and grasp the important political meaning of the novel?
Well, there are different ways for a work of art to be difficult. It is more
easy to follow "Der Prozess"'s plot that "Gravity's Rainbow"'s one. But, I
think, Kafka's ambiguity is deeper.

Every fundamental interaction in Nature propagates at the speed of light - not
only gravity. It's required by special relativity.

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