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

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thanks, Keith! I love lists.

Buddhists killing Muslims, David? Are they Buddhists, then?

Sorry, but I was just reading The Thirteen Gun Salute by O'Brian. One
paragraph:

He had always understood that nothing in the vast and effectively sacred
Kumal crater was ever killed by men nor had been so killed since the
beginning of the Buddhist era, yet although he had had some small
experience of this immunity during his time in Hindu India, where vultures
would sit on the roof or squabble in the busy street and where monkeys
walked in at the window, he was astonished by what he saw. Before he went
to sleep half the Ark, half the fauna of Pub Prabang walked by in the
moonlight or sat scratching themselves on the broad expanse of grass. One
in the night he was woken by a huge, sweet-breathed creature blowing on his
face, but by that time the moon had set and he could not identify it; then
in the early light, when first he raised his head, there was an orang-utang
nonchalantly leaving the narthex, where it had presumably called on Muong.
And the dewy grass was crisscrossed with innumerable tracks.
He had always understood that nothing in the vast and effectively sacred
Kumal crater was ever killed by men nor had been so killed since the
beginning of the Buddhist era, yet although he had had some small
experience of this immunity during his time in Hindu India, where vultures
would sit on the roof or squabble in the busy street and where monkeys
walked in at the window, he was astonished by what he saw. Before he went
to sleep half the Ark, half the fauna of Pub Prabang walked by in the
moonlight or sat scratching themselves on the broad expanse of grass. One
in the night he was woken by a huge, sweet-breathed creature blowing on his
face, but by that time the moon had set and he could not identify it; then
in the early light, when first he raised his head, there was an orang-utang
nonchalantly leaving the narthex, where it had presumably called on Muong.
And the dewy grass was crisscrossed with innumerable tracks.
He had always understood that nothing in the vast and effectively sacred
Kumal crater was ever killed by men nor had been so killed since the
beginning of the Buddhist era, yet although he had had some small
experience of this immunity during his time in Hindu India, where vultures
would sit on the roof or squabble in the busy street and where monkeys
walked in at the window, he was astonished by what he saw. Before he went
to sleep half the Ark, half the fauna of Pub Prabang walked by in the
moonlight or sat scratching themselves on the broad expanse of grass. One
in the night he was woken by a huge, sweet-breathed creature blowing on his
face, but by that time the moon had set and he could not identify it; then
in the early light, when first he raised his head, there was an orang-utang
nonchalantly leaving the narthex, where it had presumably called on Muong.
And the dewy grass was crisscrossed with innumerable tracks.
He had always understood that nothing in the vast and effectively sacred
Kumal crater was ever killed by men nor had been so killed since the
beginning of the Buddhist era, yet although he had had some small
experience of this immunity during his time in Hindu India, where vultures
would sit on the roof or squabble in the busy street and where monkeys
walked in at the window, he was astonished by what he saw. Before he went
to sleep half the Ark, half the fauna of Pub Prabang walked by in the
moonlight or sat scratching themselves on the broad expanse of grass. One
in the night he was woken by a huge, sweet-breathed creature blowing on his
face, but by that time the moon had set and he could not identify it; then
in the early light, when first he raised his head, there was an orang-utang
nonchalantly leaving the narthex, where it had presumably called on Muong.
And the dewy grass was crisscrossed with innumerable tracks.


> Of course we can study and contrast various cultural ideas,  but Bhuddists
> are killing Muslims these days.
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