Shadow Ticket: an assumption

[rich]

Hello all

I was wondering this Sunday morning as I read the continuing grim news
emanating out of the present US administration: would we have a new novel,
which I believe will be Pynchon's last (more below) if not for the roads
the US took since 2016. Yes, recent events have always influenced Pynchon's
writing, but seems to me, without the swift turn for the worse globally,
would he had written another book? BE seemed to be a fine capstone warning
of the dangers of tech and how that has led us to where we are. and then DT
comes along.
So, I think this may be his last book because Pynchon had scraped the
barrel, flushed out all the things he had obsessed over, over many years to
publish two massive books, M&D and AtD, followed by what I call Pynchon's
late phase, two 'personal works' wrapped around the PI detective noir frame.
ST seems to suggest using the frame of the last two books, but within a
'framework' found in his earlier work, but at a smaller scale. Now, I'm not
saying specifically DT was the main cause we have a new book, but without
all the craziness of the last decade, maybe Pynchon felt emboldened to have
one last say.

just a thought
rich