Rinse & Repeat. 2020 article on the prescience of VINELAND.

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon did 9/11 in Bleeding Edge...with his usual originality....

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:42 PM O G <octogonalyoyo at gmail.com> wrote:

> This article assumes I recall the Summer of 2020, or any of its contents.
> The real humdinger of an event is, and I was a touch disappointed when the
> article got around to almost parenthetical and apologetical mentions, nine
> eleven.  It is crying out for supernovelizing, a right angled Pynchonic
> transdimensional Tristmegistgasmic carnival.  Not something where you spend
> 90 pages becoming emotional about a baseball.  No doubt a topic brandied
> aboot in these auctionrooms.  9by11, if memory serves (it never speaks), is
> the dimension of the Giza perimeter.  Roughly 264by216, 528by432.  If you
> are going to vaporize a couple big buildings, you are going to choose your
> day.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 2:30 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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