Pynchon "ends" the time machine.

[Mark Kohut]

I happen to also be reading A Hundred Years of Solitude, that magical attempt to recreate the myth of the human world, in which Marquez manifests the implications of same: a past, present and future existing allatonce and in which

There is a line about no more time machines which thus guy coudda worked in had he remembered it. 

Perhaps the end of time travel is where literary modernism stops...as someone has probably said. 


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> On Jun 10, 2017, at 10:14 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 6/10/17, 7:30 PM
>> In literature, humans invented the time machine thousands of years ago. ow.ly/dMaz30ctetu pic.twitter.com/dA43yt8g2U
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