Seems the word for him from this perspective might be METAMODERN: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/is-stephen-colbert-bringig-poetry_b_8332208.html On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote: > ----Ben Carson, most cryptic and ironic candidate (and Pynchon commentator). - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l