Looks like Pynchon's writing for the NYTimes now

Summer's Not Over Yet Blues

Cream, in the wh(a)ite room (wah not optional); beautiful late summer eve show on the railroad bridge gazebo

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Carpe diem

There’s a scene in The Fixer that’s so awful I had to put the book down the first time I read it. To restart I’d reread the beautiful socratic Spinoza discussion (later used epigraphically by Deleuze in his Spinoza book).

American "big-character poster"

Mao, like Stalin, was a delusional blank-slateist.

Also satisfying that the 4d Laplacian = ▢

Chomsky, reluctantly responding to a symposium of papers critiquing a version of "science" he couldn't comprehend, clairvoyantly proposes to cleanse and abstract the discussion by renaming the object "X" and discussing its properties.

Been re-reading Victor Klemperer and it's hard to keep going. "We are the Führer's serfs!"

Quoted, incidentally, by Steven Weinberg rejecting the idea that a final physics is inherently an infinite regress.

Some friends and I are thinking of doing an R.E.M. halloween cover band. I'm on the case, but I think I may need to grab a Rickenbacker.

Rainy day blooze