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May 19, 2021Liked by Erik Davis

Dr. Davis, I was imagining you would connect via light telegraphy to Pynchon’s “lives of the saints” style history of a light bulb at the end of Gravity’s Rainbow. Did you decide that Pynchon’s account was not sufficiently concerned with the revelatory to be thematic?

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The whole thing (or almost) is viewable at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/man-from-utopia-1972/mode/2up Holy balls.

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