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Thomas Pynchon Predicted the Pandemic in ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’—Now Aren't You Sorry You Didn't Read It?

READ IT AND WEEP

The massive novel about World War II is often the butt of literary jokes, but what it says about humanity’s lethal virus-spreading has everything to do with how we live now.

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