Arts
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, continued: precursors –– John Quincy Adams, the only president worth admiring as a human being –– America has always been, will always be, and must remain schizoid, and lemme tell you why, young gun –– Herman Melville, the first great American writer, possibly the first American (post-genocide class) –– Gravity's Rainbow as the antidote to V. –– Gravity's Rainbow, mutant novel of sentimental education