imipolex-G

[Oliver Xymoron]

On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Brian D. McCary wrote:

> Incidentally, are there any thoughts out there in list land about the
> contrasts between the GR conspiricy world, which appears to be one of
> arbitrary actions of larger bodies, and the conspiricy world of 
> Uberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum", which is one personal delusion and 
> over analysis?  I thought Pendulum was about as close as anyone has come
> to Pynchon in the last two decades, perhaps even closer than Pynchon
> himself came in "Vineland".
> 

Pendulum did not do much for me, I have to say. Perhaps because I'm 
familiar with the Templar etc. conspiracy framework, which is pretty 
mainstream as conspiracy theories go, I was not moved by anything like 
the paranoia present in Pynchon's novels. However, Pynchon's 
treatment of the Masons, another "classic conspiracy," somewhere 
deep in GR, still held the same fascination for me as his more 
outlandish schemes, such as the Antarctic expedition. Beyond the 
conspiracy bent, I don't see much else to compare Pendulum to TRP's work.

As for the pronunciation of imipolex, I always took it to be 
eye-mippo-lex, but of course you'd have to ask a German chemist, for want 
of asking the man himself, to have an answer you could place faith in.

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