GR II

[ish mailian]

So, is  GR a more important novel now? Easier to read, now?
To be about us, now,it doesn't need hypersonics and new equations.

Iran, it seems, shot down a Boeing commercial airplane yesterday,
killing everyone on board.
Nothing nuclear ... but ... an accident of the kind that could have
nuclear repercussions.

Pynchon, in Luddite and with VL seemed to have moved on, as the world
did, from Physics to Bilology. But was his dire prediction in Luddite,
that robots would hook up to biology and the brass would be caught
flatfooted prescient? Not even Orwell, sez Pynchon, was prescient, but
 now, it seems to me, GR is more prescient than ever.




On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 4:31 PM Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> Hypersonic or not -- the fact that nuclear weapons still exist means
> that mankind at some point will get what it deserves. Probably by
> accident. Too intelligent, and at the same time too fucking stupid.