Not P just Pynchon's deepest view of history and its lost possibilities (I say, hyperbolically, not literally, so unbristle)

[Mark Kohut]

I am so excited in sending this out and I have so much to say that I can't
say it all and it is already all compact in fragments mentally that I
surely can't cohere without taking more time. (see Jochen, sometimes it is
a good thing (maybe) that I act almost impulsively sometimes. Just fyi,
many posts now marinate a day but not this one. )

First, let me offer this post and review for Joseph, that Plister who
almost wants me gone, but who recently wrote a judgment of the 'state' that
this genius has. And which I never disagreed with him about.

And for Morris, with whom I went back and forth with once on this list
about "anarchism" [in general, and in P] and I think we agreed on the same
ultimate space---Anarchism is not a 'political philosophy' that can work to
run states, countries now (and in the recent past) BUT anarchism as
a possibility within the public space of almost anywhere [ I instantiated
it as I could into a non-prof in my town] is what Graeber insists upon
and sees deep in history.  And which is a constant theme in Pynchon's
life's work, I keep suggesting.  ( David may disagree and will say so if he
does. )

Graeber's* Debt *is still beyond my understanding--I stopped out---but that
is my weakness. But I am in his debt for a new understanding of anarchism
and hunters and gatherers and much else in the development of Everything.
[I used to give a mortar & pestle as a wedding gift; a symbol of moving
beyond the hunting and gathering phase of youth]

If ANYONE on or off the Plist wants to Group Read this, I'm so IN, I'll
fall out.

Many many academics in all kinds of disciplines are writing about getting
this book, waiting for this book---Graeber's reputation was huge and the
anticipation of this book was even more huge---and are now starting to read
this book.

I am as excited as an eager freshman again--even as a self
side-educating high schooler; even more excited than discovering a new
great writer, the newest Nobelist. (*Afterlives *is real good. Precise
observation and history and verbal creation of character and situations
that remind me of Camus or Conrad.)

>From the review below:
"None of these groups, as far as we have reason to believe, resembled the
simple savages of popular imagination, unselfconscious innocents who dwelt
within a kind of eternal present or cyclical dreamtime, waiting for the
Western hand to wake them up and fling them into history."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history-humanity/620177/