bleeding edge

the most advanced stage of a technology, art, etc., usually experimental and risky.

bleeding edge

noun

1980–85; patterned on cutting edge or leading edge

Thomas Pynchon was still making fun of it last year in his novel Bleeding Edge.

It is one of the only times I can think of when life imitates art to the very bleeding edge of an aluminum shank.

“Dark possibilities are beginning to emerge,” he writes at one point in Bleeding Edge.

Rather, in his new novel, Bleeding Edge, Pynchon has encountered a subject that resists even his ample literary capacities.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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