Henry Adams, a Pynchon fave influence and "the day"

[Mark Kohut]

"As I belong to the class of people who have great faith in this country and who believe that in another century it will be saying in its turn the last word
of civilization, I enjoy the expectation of the coming day, and try to imagine that I am myself, with my fellow gelehrte here, the first faint rays of that great light which is to dazzle and set the world on fire hereafter."---Letters, 1877, to his best friend. 

Part of the "daylit" fiction in AtD?


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