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Zunayeed Posted 10 years ago
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Can anybody please tell me the meaning of the underlined phrase ?
Wallace referred to the “oracular foresight” of writers such as Don DeLillo, whose best novels — “White Noise,” “Libra,” “Underworld” — address their contemporary audience like a shouting desert prophet while laying out for posterity the coldly amused analysis of some long-dead professor emeritus.
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These writers' novels are often set in future time. Thus, the works are taking a stab at predicting what the future is going to be like. So, to today's ("contemporary") readers, these novels are like prophecy.
- These writers' novels are often set in future time.
- Thus, the works are taking a stab at predicting what the future is going to be like.
- So, to today's ("contemporary") readers, these novels are like prophecy.
- And to tomorrow's readers ("posterity"), it will be amusing to them to read what someone long ago (and now "long-dead") predicted for their time.
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These writers' novels are often set in future time. Thus, the works are taking a stab at predicting what the future is going to be like. So, to today's ("contemporary") readers, these novels are like prophecy. And to tomorrow's readers ("posterity"), it will be amusing to them to read what someone long ago (and now "long-dead") predicted for their time.
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