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

[O G]

all right I'm willing to believe you and I'm wondering if we should notify
the Boston Review writer


On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 2:32 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> plot and a major section in the middle where NYC shuts down are even
> better.
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 1:53 PM O G <octogonalyoyo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>