Pentecost.why is 49 important again?
2*2 = 4why is 49 important again?
Pentecost.
There's the program in Bleeding Edge too. There's a character called Windust who's put through it. They abduct children, put them through a brutal training regime and mould them into time-traveling, neoliberal enforcers.the school system is the larger part of this. you could read this as a kind of dream version of the literal truth of school in which you are snatched away from home, tortured, experimented on and sorted into various streams which then determine your life outcomes.
49's one short of the 50 of the Pentecost. The entire book's perpetually on the brink of revelation.
There's the program in Bleeding Edge too. There's a character called Windust who's put through it. They abduct children, put them through a brutal training regime and mould them into time-traveling, neoliberal enforcers.
The 'psychic kids being experimented on/trained as weapons by sinister government types' comes straight from Akira, I think:Stranger Things and shows like it can't be ignored in bringing this stuff to the surface. Particularly stranger things.
Nah. Other people have already written it anyway. This is well worth reading,have you written an essay about this i could read?
It's definitely one of his weakest, but there's still stuff going on. This might make you wanna re-read it,should i read that again? i remember thinking it was drippy and vague and dull.
all that sentimental stuff about Maxine and family i found offputting in the extreme
He was posting photos of his copy and it all looks like this.There's a guy on the Pynchon sub who's in the process of dismantling it to an absurd degree.