Fwd: Thomas Pynchon Predicted the Pandemic in 'Gravity's Rainbow.’ Now Aren't You Sorry You Didn't Read It?

[Mark Kohut]

This imaginatively stretches the reading wonderfully, but it is so good. I
love all the smart readings which take it away from the literal Blitz and
rocket, which fetish pervades too many, I pick a fight with by declaring.
(I'm done, you win).

So alive and in touch with reality now and the reality of *Gravity's
Rainbow*.(isn't the section quoted, which seldom is, GREAT?) All those
tentacles and tendrils involved.

LcClair has lived with this book from the beginning and makes the overall
case again why great books "touch bottom" so well that they are always
true. There it stands intertwined with Moby Dick,
the two greatest American novels of their centuries, I say.

My vote for the best critical essay of our times since.....Pynchon wrote
the intro to the reissue of* 1984*? (written for effect and as if I know
more than a few)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-pynchon-predicted-the-pandemic-in-gravitys-rainbow-now-arent-you-sorry-you-didnt-read-it


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