The Great Divide

[Henry Musikar]

Small quibble. G. Spencer-Brown's fundamental operation/instruction 
was to draw a distinction. That distinction was symbolized in the 
calculous by a (bent) line, and was illustrated by a circle as 
representative of a contained space.

On 14 Jul 97 at 12:13, Michael McAulay <michael.mcaulay at 3do.com> 
wrote:

> I've been looking for an opening for this for a while now...check
> page 616 of M&D where there is a clear reference to G.
> Spencer-Brown's Laws Of Form.  In LOF the fundamental operation of
> thought is identified as drawing-a-line, which operation is
> explicitly identified with naming.
> 
> So is TP saying that dehumanization is inherent in cognition?
> 
> [a plea, an imprecation: enough, already, with the non-Pynch msgs in
> this list!  My mailbox runneth over.  Surely there are other, more
> suitable venues, etc. etc...]  
> 
> ========
> Mike McAulay
> Sr. Engineer
> 3DO
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Jules Siegel [SMTP:jsiegel at mail.caribe.net.mx]
> > Sent:	Monday, July 14, 1997 7:28 AM
> > To:	pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject:	Re: The Great Divide
> > 
> > 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
> > http://www.yucatanweb.com/siegel/jsiegel.htm
> 


AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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