Ruben’s Reviews > Against the Day > Status Update

electrical technology and train networks as sign of a gilded-age breakthrough. what happens when the night is pushed back, and what happens to those left in the shadows

a father who is an old anarchist bomber disowns his son for taking an electrical engineering grant from a corporation, as if marrying the idea of youth with modernity, while those oldheads that have worked to make it a career option resent you for it

Pynchon at his peak socialist. most industrialisation of the american landscape results in a magical re-appreciation for light in all its scientific, religious, and political applications. an airship crew from a cheap adventure novel finds Chicago ethnically segregated through electrical grids, Franz Ferdinand goes on a racist college bender, an anarchist priest tells sordid miners to use dynamite on capitalists. Yay