Great books illumine everywhere. From Garrett Epps in The Atlantic on the subtext of Kavanaugh, if interested.

[Monte Davis]

Very apposite.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:56 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Once Kavanaugh was trotted out, however, the discourse became very odd
> indeed. It reminded me of Thomas Pynchon’s parody of Jacobean revenge drama
> in *The Crying of Lot 49:*
>
> a gentle chill, an ambiguity, begins to creep in among the words.
> Heretofore the naming of names has gone on either literally or as metaphor.
> But now … a new mode of expression takes over. Certain things, it is made
> clear, will not be spoken aloud; certain things will not be show onstage;
> though it is difficult to imagine, given the excess of the preceding acts,
> what these things could possibly be.
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