[lbo-talk] Charles Bowden

[Miles Jackson]

On 01/18/2011 09:33 AM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> I find labels like "hallucinatory" are often misapplied, but I found Gravity's Rainbow to be the one book I've ever read where it really applies because it immerses the reader completely in its universe.
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> Particularly the passages where the Soviet officer is sent to a Central Asian republic to teach an alphabet.  Reading that part was so vivid to me, it was like a waking dream.
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> "Cold" to me suggests the exact opposite of such an experience.

Hey, cold can be very vivid and real.  Ask some of my ex-girlfriends!

Miles