Another TRP Quote

[grip at netcom.com]

On Wed, 15 May 1996, Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt wrote:

> Long long ago, on Tue, 14 Nov 1995 22:28:35 EST,  VVCP80A at prodigy.com 
> (MR TOM J STANTON) wrote:
> 
> > Poets citing science (Frost, Moore, Stevens, etc.) are a long way
> > off from poets using *science* as a methaphor or structure for their
> > work. Most literature I've read ignores science, reviles it, or  stands 
> > back to admire it like sculpture. And I don't accept that science is 
> > so hard and massive that writers are excused from using it. 
> >                                                                   Pynchon
> 
> Tom seems to be out of town or something. Does anybody else know where 
> this quote, which sounds so _familiar_, comes from? I need the references 
> for an article I'm writing - alas, the editors have standards and the 
> quote is just too perfect to drop (Luddite, indeed!).
> 
> thnks mucho
> 
> hg
> hag at iafrica.com

I won't argue about who is or isn't a neo-Luddite, but the above quote 
doesn't imply an anti-Luddite stance. One can be well versed in science 
and appalled at where out technology is taking us.

Small point.

grip