Fwd: I have read it before, but every time is now.

[Mark Kohut]

GR:
'They have begun to move". They, we, 'all out of luck and time', are
now refugees. It has happened before but it IS ALWAYS HAPPENING again.

More refugees now in the world, someone has recently written, since
some last war
OR  maybe ever, because so many people.

Refugees into Greece and Turkey we've seen on the news. Macedonia--remember
its centrality in Against the Day?--has a new border crisis, I read today.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 2:25 PM
Subject: I have read it before, but every time is now.
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>


GR opening...
'there is nothing to compare it to now"...
what a fine way to indicate how the horror is always
immediate, always NOW.....  in one sentence is expressed that
any knowledge or memory of
what "has happened before" has been driven out.

"only great invisible crashing"....since this is a book for all time,
I for the first time
think of the unknown Trespassers and the unknown [invisible]
world-historical 'crashing"
from Against the Day.
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