Re: 📄 "Thomas Pynchon, High Theory, and the Legacy of the Long Sixties" by David Letzler

[Mark Kohut]

Ol Jerky mic drops me. Good one. 

My response, echoing the reviewer’s , reduces GR to a plot point where the Bomb did not fall on US. 



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> On Dec 17, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Tell that to the Japanese...
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:11 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some may like this academic nitpicking and supposed precision drilling on
>> Herman's and Weisenburger's Domination & Freedom.
>> I will only strongly object to what a great critic called the confusion of
>> realms, as the writer seems to think that it matters to the book's meaning
>> that the Bomb did not drop in real history.....
>> 
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>> Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:23 AM
>> Subject: 📄 "Thomas Pynchon, High Theory, and the Legacy of the Long
>> Sixties" by David Letzler
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>> In this review of Luc Herman and Steven Weisenburger's Gravity's Rainbow,
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