Has this come 'round on the guitar before?

[John Bailey]

I like the idea that historical fiction can be prescient. It's sort of
Pynchon's M.O.
Not that he treats the past as an equation whose result is the
present, and that we could have predicted our now by better analysing
what led to it (which is a lot of historical fiction). It's more like
reverse science fiction. In SF the future is usually a way of thinking
about our current historical moment. In Pynchon the past is no more
real than SF, but is a most useful fiction through which to ken our
circumstances, if the light is right.
Anyway Bleeding Edge has it all.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mr. Auerbach has latterly suggested that the election of Donald Trump is a
> Decoherence Event ala his mythos  of Pynchon's vision. Just FYI.
>
> Declared BLEEDING EDGE to be prescient, which, when I think about dark
> money, the deep web in BE and Cambridge Analytics, unsolved mysteries, what
> is the truth?,  seems righter than ever.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 8, 2017, at 7:46 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of the best early considerations of BE, fer sure
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> https://twitter.com/AuerbachKeller/status/861623079067365378
>
>
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