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

[Paul Mackin]

It's the kind of thing people stand in line for all night to get their
copy.  Tells who you are.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:22 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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