NP really

[Mark Kohut]

>From a longer essay in the NYTimes comes this quote from the end
of one of the earlier books in America sorta on a McLuhan theme--
anyway on mediated reality, a key Pynchon notion, of course...

What a last line in our awareness of The Crying of Lot 49, eh?

In “The Image” (1961), Daniel Boorstin’s jeremiad against staged news and 
manufactured experience, the final pages offer this desideratum: “Each of us 
must disenchant himself, must moderate his expectations, must prepare himself to 
receive messages coming in from the outside.”