NP: Gaddis' _Carpenter's Gothic_

[Keith McMullen]

I'm reading CG and while perusing the annotations site ran across  
this NYT review. Somebody out there might enjoy reading it as it has  
some overlap with how we see Pynchon:

http://tinyurl.com/ydsuu2

This quote from the novel, cited in the review, is worth the price of  
admission:

"Revelation is the last refuge ignorance finds from reason.  Revealed  
truth is the one weapon stupidity’s got against intelligence and  
that’s what the whole damned thing is all about. . . . you’ve got  
enough sects slaughtering each other from Londonderry to Chandigarh  
to wipe out the whole damned thing. . . . just try the Children’s  
Crusade for a sideshow, thousands of kids led into slavery and death  
by a twelve year old with a letter from Jesus. . . .all four horsemen  
riding across the hills of Africa with every damned kind of war you  
could ask for. . . . seven hundred languages. . . . they’ve all been  
at each other’s throats since the creation - war, famine, pestilence,  
death, they ask for food and water somebody hands them an AK47. . . .”