As many Plisters have upped

[Mark Kohut]

their appreciation of BLEEDING EDGE as the world
has turned in the direction it has, I was just reminded
of a brilliant thematic hint that TRP himself gave us
in the trailer to it.

The upper West Side macher in the vimeo
describes himself as working 'on the margins' ---like Karl Rove!

To me, this novel is a living example in my lifetime of how
an artist penetrated so deeply into our world that though we
"got it" and appreciated it when we read it, we have lived since so overtly
through the
world he foresaw revealing itself that the word "prophetic" must apply.

I'm trying to think of historic literary examples I've heard about.It is
NOT like
It Can't Happen Here nor even Roth's The Plot Against America in my mind.
They are, what, too literal not deep enough although good?

Melville? In a stretch, I know, the way it took a couple of hundred years
for
Hamlet's depth psychology to be felt and appreciated? Austen even? Poe, in
a way?

Anyway, you can stop reading the weaker speculations after the first three
paragraphs
and just comment on my stronger beliefs on BLEEDING EDGE.
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