…person could possibly have the breadth and depth of depth of experience to do it alone. I mean maybe mean maybe a Thomas Pynchon or someone like that, but but we're involved in a communication struggle here. We're trying to to describe the describe the…

…about at the very beginning this evening, which is the curiously literary nature of reality. That it's much more like a novel by Thomas Pynchon than it is like an equation by Ilya Pregojin. And why is that? Is it because, in fact, the flesh is word?…

…a very uncreative use of it, and that it should all be fabricated into literature. It's very hard to surpass, you know, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, these people, they. Everybody genuflects to Joyce, but very few people plow in the way he did. I mean,…

…William Gaddis, these people, they. Everybody genuflects to Joyce, but very few people plow in the way he did. I mean, Thomas Pynchon is considered a difficult, hallucinatory writer, and there isn't 20 pages in gravity's rainbow as obscure or as a randomly…

…that's part of the literature of mushrooms. And every drug has a similar fascinating history. You all know the story. As Thomas Pynchon says in gravity's rainbow, every school child knows the story of that bicycle ride through the streets of Basel that…