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

[Mark Kohut]

GR; bottom of page: 'Rain comes down."...

remember his short story and his
words on rain as a literary symbol (learned from Hemingway)
here just a short, but bit of necessary genius,
 atmospheric refinement.

Imagine this exodus without it. Not quite awful enough.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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