MDMD(4) p.123 addendum to small re-write

[Paul Mackin]

I liked Eric's statement about letting being be in the talking-clock 
scene. It's the Pynchon I recognize and appreciate.

Does Vaska's question about the mathematics that might explain
real-world structures relate to fractals? Anyway, I just noticed
that Paul DiFilippo's forthcoming collection is called Fractal Paisleys.
It's a small, fractal world.

				P.



Eric Alan Weinstein wrote:
> 
> .
> >
> >Also, I think the image of  *the clocks unspoken inward desire
> >to follow the beating of the Sea*  is one that goes to the very
> >heart of "Mason & Dixon," the very heart of what Pynchon
> >is trying---not what he is 'trying to say', for Pynchon is
> >in a Heideggerian sense, trying to "let Being be"----to allow
> >to unfold in his work.
> >
> adding to this point, he accomplishes his  "letting Being be"
> precisely by structuing a scene in which he forces Being to
> do what, in the Ordinary Universe, it will not--- having two
> clocks carry on a conversation.
> 
> A stab at truth and a lie, the magic of fiction.
> Eric Alan Weinstein
> E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk