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

[O G]

Well sure.  Page 445 and 446 are good.  "...souls coming across the bridge,
dust-covered..."  And  "...a pile of wreckage reaching ten or twelve
stories high," that's good, makes the tourists on the viewing platform
believe once the whole square lot was piled ten stories high with
wreckage.  "Sorrowful."


On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>>
>>> https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/peter-coviello-pynchon-and-coming-police-state/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=e953732ba5-reading_list_4_21_2024&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-e953732ba5-41319524&mc_cid=e953732ba5&mc_eid=7a560898f8
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