Bleeding Edge better 2nd or is it 3rd time?

[Keith Davis]

I just read Bleeding Edge again a couple of weeks ago. It really has aged well. I also have young students, and kids. I wonder about their perspective on these events that have had such an impact on us.
I would find a discussion like this very interesting.


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> On Oct 19, 2021, at 4:13 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, it's prescience, it's preternatural knowledge of the culture we are
> more and more immersed in, grows in my mind (from only two readings one
> right after another. And  also listening to just some of it on audio then).
> This is why I want to see what I could not really see the first reads.
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:26 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I am listening to Bleeding Edge via Library audio  book system today. It
>> seems different with 20 years of distance from actual 9/11 and from  the
>> time of  publication, both funnier and darker, in some ways more eerily
>> prescient( maybe not so eerily). I have HS students born after 911.
>> Pynchon's approach of viewing the event through the lens of the internet
>> and digital technology that is such a large part of our cultural reality
>> gives it a McLuhanesque spin that is worth some thought. In some ways New
>> York is one of the last outposts of dense non-digital neighborhoods and
>> human contacts but is increasingly, as all places, mediated by cell phones,
>> commercial media, isolation and less by social gathering and conversation..
>> Still there is an intensity of color in NYC that P works with expertly.
>> 
>> If anyone wants to engage in a read/listen/conversation and all the
>> attached risks, my idea is to move faster than we tend to do. I also
>> suggest we try to avoid the you’re wrong I’m right approach and  handle
>> disagreement with more respect or simply to try to enjoy the variety and
>> put down one’s own thoughts. No worries about spoilers etc. freely seeing
>> the text as a whole in commenting on any given passage, theme or event. It
>> really is quick as an audio book. The reader is good with narrative flow
>> and dramatic voicing if sometimes weaker with longer ruminations.
>> 
>> Anyone? Mike? How many would make a quorum?
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