Great review, but I cannot shake the feeling that @shanewilson.bsky.social wouldn't like a lot of Pynchon's early characters very much. "Lethargic or even clueless" sounds like a pretty accurate description of Tyrone Slothrop (or Benny Profane).

Let's read books about people reading I̶n̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶e̶ J̶e̶s̶t̶ Obstinate Dust in public, then

Catherine Lacey's work proves that we can have both at once: literature that is formally inventive and complex and literature that speaks to concerns of identity and queerness beyond the straight and narrow constraints of everyday ideology.

... and someone should write about the creative-transgressive potential of early-day youtube

So maybe the slow cancelation of our future is an ongoing process because there are still potential futures conjured up.