Ever since reading about Benjamin Franklin
in an American propaganda leaflet, kite, thunder and key, the undertaker has
been obsessed with this business of getting hit in the head by a lightning
bolt. All over Europe, it came to him
one night in a flash (though not the kind he wanted), at this very moment, are
hundreds, who knows maybe thousands, of people walking around, who have been
struck by lightning and survived. What
stories they could tell!
What the leaflet neglected to mention was that Benjamin Franklin was
also a Mason, and given to cosmic forms of practiced jokesterism, of which the
United States of America may well have been one.
(from Gravity’s
Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon)
8*/10. The full review is here.
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