be a passing historical phenomenon. His global novels are not so much written from an American perspective as from a cosmopolitan perspective, where the American exceptionalism of Roth and DeLillo is replaced by the will and ability to see the nation from the outside. This ability comes to the fore in a small scene in Gravity’s Rainbow, where the American Slothrop hides from American military police in the French city Nice. The MPs knock on the door to Slothrop’s hotel room and demand that he let them in: “For possibly the first time he is hearing America as it must sound to a non-American. Later he will recall that what surprised him most was the fanaticism, the reliance not just on flat force but on the rightness ofDays of 98 Show, now in it's 90th year plays daily in Skagway at the Eagles Hall on 6th and Broadway. A musical that tells the story of Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, Alaska's most notorious con man, and King of Skagway during the Klondike Gold Rush.