Also via Kottke, I checked out a post called The String Theory Backlash on a blog called Cosmic Variance. I like to keep an eye on debates about string theory because I have a homegrown cosmological hypothesis (with which I will not detain you here) which borrows a concept or two from string theory, and I’m waiting for someone to come along and shoot a hole in it.
Anyway, I had this page sitting in a browser tab for several hours before I noticed that the previous post title was Untitled Thomas Pynchon, which speculates along much the same lines I did a few posts back, and points to a Slate article which does more or less likewise. Also, the CV post boasts a handful of comments, which of course is a handful more than mine has so far attracted. There’s more discussion in the Amazon Customer Discussion page for the book-to-be – nine hundred and ninety two pages! Wheee!) and of course there’s much threadage on pynchon-l, which I must admit I haven’t yet waded through. Pynchon-l has been all over the story since the 10th. Looks like they had a round of “get over the book blurb already” about a week ago…
- "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."— Charles Kingsley
