Pynchon / Nabokov / Borges / Mathematics

[grip at netcom.com]

On Wed, 11 Oct 1995 EHREH at aol.com wrote:

> Years ago i discerned apattern in V altho not mathematical that was chesslike
> or gamelike with three types of V's.  The first is the lateral or planar V as
> in two lines that converge at a vanishing point (or not...) which becomes the
> ground or 'chessboard'of the action. See last line paragraph one. The second
> is an upside down V often represented by characters with the letter M
> representing the masculine dual or split character like Melanie impaled
> during the ballet.  The right side up V and characters with that initial are
> feminine ideals in the classic western sense.  The problem with this
> chessboard and the game being played is that the classic space keeps
> collapsing and the objects of the quests vanish.  
> 
> I would be curious to see if anyone thinks the gamelike structure holds and
> if it is continued in GR with the spatial configuations of the parabola and
> ellipse.  The curve is introduced at the end of V as a segueway:
> 

When I read things like this, I begin to wonder at what the author has 
done with volition and what unconsciously. I wonder if there are patterns 
formed in our brains as we are in that critical learning stage between 
birth and teens that bias what we consider to be random thoughts into 
subtle patterns that, in the case of TRP, literary foax uncover.

Is there a reasonable analogy between the rather simple patterns of 
inorganic chrystal growth and the (for us) complex patterns of what may 
be thought of as organic chrystal growth in our brains?

Just a thought...

grip