NP but Roth. My remark below and further below.

[Mark Thibodeau]

I think Twin Peaks: The Return might be more accurate in its portrayal
of the level of sheer madness America represents. Nukes and all.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:53 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And, although Roth did not have to learn how to write a magnificently
> ambiguous----open, open---ending from
> The Crying of Lot 49, he might have learned a little.
>
> Pynchon, Roth, Portis, the Koens, who else rivals them in trying to show
> the outright 'craziness' of America, Americans, the nation in our time?
>
> Cf Roth/Zuckerman/the Swede talking:..."There is no connection....it's as
> disconnected as everything else.......there are no reasons. She is obliged
> to be who she is.
> We all are. Reasons are in books....It is not rational. It is chaos".
>
> From one perspective, even most of America's best writers are
> too......committed to rationality as the satiric base of judgment, maybe?
>
>
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> Early coffee as I finished American Pastoral, Roth's masterpiece on how
> America is too crazy to "understand". ..Then I remembered my first thoughts
> upon waking--and I was dizzy, IRL--what will happen re Bezos' dick pics and
> our blackfaced leaders?.... Still right, Philip, so right.
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