Quote of the Day

[Mark Kohut]

Nice.

"To leave hindsight flabbergasted"....could be the title of an essay on the 
history in V., maybe?


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From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, September 26, 2010 10:02:50 AM
Subject: Quote of the Day

  "[The linotype] illustrates two principles: 1) that the way to
imitate a human activity is never to replicate the human action; 2)
that the resulting pressures on human behavior are apt to elude
foresight utterly, and be occulted from most present sight, to leave
hindsight flabbergasted."

--Hugh Kenner, The Mechanic Muse (New York: Oxford UP, 1987), pp. 7-8