Gravity's Rainbow embodies Donald Trump.

[Michel]

"Major Marvy Duane and Donald Trump: 'Kute Korrespondences'"


Op 1-10-2016 om 14:24 schreef 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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