"You're gonna want cause & effect"---in Gravity's Rainbow. TR Pynchon on the President. So to speak.

[Jochen Stremmel]

You really – really – read that ... book?

2018-01-16 12:29 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> "innocent as a child, perhaps unaware--perhaps--that in his play he wrecks
> the elegant rooms of history, threatens the idea of cause and effect
> itself."....
> ...."Will Postwar be nothing but 'events' newly created one moment to the
> next?"---Gravity's Rainbow, p. 56
>
> At least half a dozen times in* Fire & Fury* Wolff says and repeats an
> insight he has on President Trump---that his mind has a constant problem
> with cause & effect:
>  it's jump aroundness, free associating with his own internal links; his
> constant mental slurring of
> truth and falsity; his ability to project his willed perceptions and think
> they are reality......
>
>
> As I say, Pynchon knows everything and knew it all long ago. GR--prophetic
> fiction still (always) unfolding.
>
> And the absolute sublimity--in Bloom's/the literary-- sense---of that
> second "perhaps'-- in my humble opinion---since the question of
> how much calculating IS being done pervades Psych 101 discussions of the
> US President.
>
>  P is still unbelievable.
>
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