Pynchon and Adams

[Mark Kohut]

Stumbled upon stuff that will be a longer post, I hope, but this quote can't wait: 

In Henry Adams' last work, an essay, Letter to American Teachers of History,  1910, he wrote: 
"The most ardent lover of paradox, --the most inveterate humorist – would hardly think it worth his while to follow a train of reasoning which would surely immolate physics and metaphysics together. 
Such amusements seem to be reserved for astronomers." 

And Thomas Pynchon, astronomical writer. Who took the challenge, right? 


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