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Andrew Dinn andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Sun May 14 03:33:43 CDT 1995


David L. Pelovitz writes:

> The point is not simply that no word has absolute
> meaning, but that the entire statement does not have
> an absolute meaning.  Which would seem to question both
> analog and digital communication

I believe the relevant phrase is

    The unit of meaning is the sentence

Pynchon's question being addressed at neither analog nor digital
communication per se but at general theories of communication via
language natural or otherwise (unnatural language might escape through
a peculiar grace all its own).


Andrew Dinn
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