How Pynchon predicted Trumpworld.

[Mark Kohut]

Well, I made the mistake of leaving the quotes around it, stupidly--...

It is near the end, the American/ Nixon era.....page 676 in the original
Viking.....

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:43 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I googled it.  it's from Gravity's Rainbow.  I just don't know where.
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:40 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good question and shows I should have checked first......This was a tweet
>> I picked up from
>> writer, critic, editor Sven Birkerts.
>> I did not recognize it as it is written but thought it was one I just no
>> longer recognized, probably from Inherent Vice, I thought...
>>
>> But Google and Google Books search show the only sourcing to be Sven
>> Birkerts' twitter feed.
>>
>> Perhaps he thought it captured the world through Pynchon---I know he
>> knows his works, or most anyway--but didn't
>> put that down clearly.
>>
>> Anyway, yea it is kinda perfect but....it ain't the master's exact words.
>>
>> Sorry.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:28 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Perfect for our times.  What is the context?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:55 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "There is no direction here. Neither lines of power nor cooperation.
>>>> Decisions are never really made—at best they manage to emerge from a
>>>> chaos
>>>> of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery." Thomas
>>>> Pynchon
>>>> --
>>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>>
>>>