" We live in a state of siege"

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon writes this about the living we all do later in Against the Day. I
think
it applies to the constant wars in history, in the history of modernity
particularly, his fictional terrain.
(And, simply, all history by easy truth lassoing)

I was taken up short when I ran across the same phrase in Olga
Tokarczuk; *Drive
Your Plows*
*Over the Bones of the Dead*: "We live in a state of siege". She means it
about the inevitability of
decline and death.

I recommend this book if at all interested.Nobelist, you will recall.

 People, animals dying all around our semi-reliable (I think)
narrator, translating Blake and who is an expert horoscope doer, full of
Theories in a wonderfully done
modern Gothic atmosphere presented as a mystery plot-wise, in small village
Poland.

One turns the pages hooked on the plot and on what Big Question riffs come
next.