Status Updates From White Noise

We meet Murray. He works for the American environments department. He and Jack (Gladney) go to a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America.

Murray maintained a prolonged silence, occasionally scrawling some notes in a little book.
“No one sees the barn,” he said finally.

Section two was decently different from one. The tone is fascinating given the danger of the situation. Perhaps realistic. You can't always be scared. Section one helped build the couple characters to care about what they go through in section two.

“A woman who harbors a terrible secret. A man with a haunted look. A man who never comes out of his room. A woman who stands by the letter box for hours, waiting for something that never seems to arrive. A man with no past. A woman with a past. There is a smell about the place of unhappy lives in the movies that I really respond to."
"Which one are you?" I said.
"I'm the Jew. What else would I be?"

Jack describes his wife, Babette, ample, with a blond mop, a lover of life unlike his previous wives. They and their daughters from previous marriages have lunch. Heinrich, Jack’s only son, comes in, studies the scene and leaves.

It is September and our narrator, chairman of Hitler Studies at the College-on-the-Hill, is watching the students arrive back on campus, dropped off by their parents in a stream of station wagons.

Started off listening to about a third of this book. 2x speed on Libby because the narrator is slow as heck. But I'm enjoying this. My first Delillo. A unique style. I can see some of the post modern claims. Some similarities to David Foster Wallace I think. Love a take on consumerism. We are so drenched in it, it's remarkable when someone can point at a tree in the midst of the forest.