Gravity's Rainbow embodies Donald Trump.

[Mark Kohut]

We've posted, thankfully I say to myself first, almost nothing about Donald
Trump here
on the Pynchon listserve.

A lister has generously shared offlist a piece using Musil's The Man
Without Qualites
as a symbolic way toward getting him.  It is at the LA Review of Books if
you are interested.

But this brilliant piece, I say,  because it hits on the flummoxing we do,
I've done, about
Trump's constant lies and post-facts world is also deeply relevant to
Pynchon readers, I suggest

because of its focus on dominance and submission
that full-length Gravity's Rainbow subject and theme. ( I, personally, only
had
thoughts of GR when I have read of some of DT's relations with women but
this person makes the full character (without qualities) case. IMHO.)

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/29/13086236/trump-beliefs-category-error
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