Has this come 'round on the guitar before?

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue May 9 10:35:13 CDT 2017


Maybe if they'd cut 250 pgs minimum from BE I'd agree.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:32 AM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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