I got one complaint yesterday from a color-blind reader who had trouble with my coding of Charles Bernstein’s poem. My own color-blind son tells me that he could distinguish all three colors, but could understand how somebody even more color-blind could not. If this applies to you, send me an email and I will send you the text in Word with the colors swizzled to avoid the problem.

 

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According to The Simpson Archive, Thomas Pynchon will appear as himself on a show later this season. The premise being that Marge has written a novel. Tom Clancy also appears. No sign on the Archive site if they have any idea (a) what an odd combination that is, or (b) how many Pynchon fans will be wondering if “that” is really what he looks like these days.