Dear Log,
«In a very real sense, then, Gravity's Rainbow is turning historical--an inevitable fate. Three decades on, it has acquired something of the "aura" that Walter Benjamin ascribed to works of art produced before the advent of mechanical reproduction.Golly. Now we'll have to learn to read![...]Speaking of book-collecting, the philosopher Walter Benjamin spoke of "the thrill of acquisition." But, when everything's instantly available online, the thrill is gone.»
--"Pynchon from A to V"
