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

[Jochen Stremmel]

I guess Gessen has also read it. But then, she had to.

I think that ... book is destined to be a bestseller for psychological
reasons. In your country. I hope it bombs here.

2018-01-16 17:13 GMT+01:00 Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>:

> 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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