The Great Divide

[Jules Siegel]

At 03:09 PM 07/14/97 BST, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:
>Pynchon later baldly states that the purpose of carving all those
>grid lines on the land was so that it could then be divided up,
>possessed and fought over. However natural the original demarcations
>might appear to be once you look up at the stars the orientation we
>have chosen to impose on these `natural' coordinate systems says more
>about humanity (rather, inhumanity) than it says about the physical
>world.

Beyond excellent! One might say that the unifying theme of V., Gravity's
Rainbow and, possibly, Mason & Dixon, is the process of dehumanization that
begins with the grid system.


--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
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