GRGR3: Discussion Opener for Section 3

[Murthy Yenamandra]

David Andignac writes:
> I also think that Pynchon is exploring not just how They use psychology and
> parapsychology, but how We use it to come to grips with the world around
> us. [...]

Yes! 'The world' may be 'all that is the case', but we split up the
unified and coherent world into so many categories of perception
(animate/inanimate, dead/living ...) that we need parapsychology to see
past/across our own categorization.

> Finnally, isn't the Invisible Hand a famous business theory, concerning the
> development of markets in the economy?

Adam Smith's 'Wealth of the Nations' - each man acting in his own
self-interest makes the market behave as if governed by a benevolent
'invisible hand'. Used by all and sundry to demonstrate that it is man's
sacred duty to act only in his self-interest (mine it, clear it and move
out west, where there is more) or else civilization would collapse.

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. Email: yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in
that gap all human sadness lies." - _Blue Dog_