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

[Paul Mackin]

Well, the opening recreation of the meeting between Bannon and Ailes WAS
quite funny.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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