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

[Jochen Stremmel]

Oh yes, sometimes I'm capable of irony, too.

Of course you know that I was referring to that other ... book:

"The President of the United States is a deranged liar who surrounds
himself with sycophants. He is also functionally illiterate and
intellectually unsound. He is manifestly unfit for the job
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/the-increasing-unfitness-of-donald-trump>.
Who knew? Everybody did.

So why has a poorly written book containing this information, padded with
much tedious detail, become an overnight sensation, a runaway best-seller,
and the topic of every other political column, podcast, and dinner
conversation? It seems we are in bigger trouble with reality perception
than we might have realized."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/fire-and-
fury-is-a-book-all-too-worthy-of-the-president
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