![]() Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Ideas and Letters A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section and the NS archive, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Weekly Highlights A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. ![]() The Culture Edit Our weekly culture newsletter – from books and art to pop culture and memes – sent every Friday. Green Times The New Statesman’s weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. 3 noun bleeding edge the very forefront of technological development 3. 3 adjective bleeding edge Bleeding-edge equipment or technology is the most advanced that there is in a particular field. Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. singular noun bleeding edge If you are at the bleeding edge of a particular field of activity, you are involved in its most advanced or most exciting developments. One of the things that Pynchon wants to expose is the way we massage things into metaphor and then forget that we’ve done it. Fastforward more than half a century – from 1944 to 2001 – and there are even more phenomena to describe or half describe, more slang to borrow from espionage and economics, erotica and psychiatry. But then “screaming” is already a comparison, a clarifying anthropomorphic metaphor. ![]() It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now” – makes a point of stating where eloquence can’t go, either because we don’t hear V-2 rockets any more, or we no longer hear anything that resembles them, or because the only people who might have heard them were dead by the time they got the chance (being supersonic, the V-2 announces its arrival after it has already landed). The opening paragraph of Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) – “A screaming comes across the sky. It is probably fair at this advanced stage to note that Pynchon has an incurable obsession with language: its capacity for behaving like glass or gauze.
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