Great American Allusions

Major Arcana is possibly the greatest title of the twenty-first century, depending on how you pronounce it. Major Ar-kay-nuh with an Arkansas accent won’t do, nor will trying to rhyme it with Arkansas, either. And as for the German My-orr, let us bid it a preventative Auf Weidersehen. The only way to pronounce it is Major Ar-caw-nuh, with its deserved fluidity. The novel, however, is in part a pronoun novel, meaning it deals with one of the least fluid grammatical phenomena of our times, but from a playful omniscience beyond popular morality that may very well retire the gender genre. Let us then, already at play in the high celestial geography of the third person, look down first with vertigo at the openwork Gothic cathedral author John Pistelli has fashioned in tribute to the maximal, modernist novel, and let the myopia of post-modern grammar set in later, in the senescence of this review.