Has this come 'round on the guitar before?

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue May 9 10:43:15 CDT 2017


Exactly :)


On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 10:40 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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