Has this come 'round on the guitar before?
Jochen Stremmel
jstremmel at gmail.com
Tue May 9 10:40:02 CDT 2017
They? Them?
2017-05-09 17:35 GMT+02:00 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> 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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