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

[Mark Kohut]

I've read Gravity's Rainbow four--or is it five-- full times now and many
parts of it maybe up to eight or ten. And
key passages and scenes uncountable times.

You should read it; it is a great book.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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