NP: Trying to write something on Roth's Our Gang while rereading it during the Trump regime (sic)

[Mark Kohut]

An early morning close-as-white-on-rice reading since it is the only way I
can attack it
not being a natural genius reader---I have found a sure typo, I think, on
page 538 of the canonical
Library of America edition which I must send to them since eternal
exactitude matters but
this short post is just to point out one sly, unexpected moment of Roth's
genius.

Late in the book he has a TV pundit modeled after Eric Severeid (named
Erect Severehead)
with a self-proclaimed "cogent news analysis" who speechmakes portentously
in high-toned heavy words but short, straightforward TV sentences
until we read this one: "And it is that very mortality that the men in the
corridors of power."   SIC.

Unless this is some kind of misprinting mistake, which I can't believe,
Roth gives him an incomplete sentence
in the middle of his TV profundities. Lost so in the Big Thoughts he loses
the basic sentence. Love it. (Reminds me of
me, sometimes)

Genius, I say, pure genius.