Pynchon "ends" the time machine.

[John Bailey]

I'm making my way through this and it's a very easy and enjoyable read. The
tweet headline is misleading - Gleick makes the case that the very notion
of time travel as we think of it didn't really occur to anyone until very
recently. In literature people travelled to strange lands or slept for a
hundred years or were hit on the head and woke up in a different time, but
he argues quite well that these tropes should be understood quite
differently. He's a really lively and sometimes laugh-out-loud writer, too.

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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