GR & death

[David Casseres]

Paul Murphy sez
>Much obliged to David Casseres for articulating a reading of GR much in
>sympathy with my own. The protagonist of the book is the Bomb, not Slothrop
>or whoever else. It's about technologies of death (alright, let me qualify
>that by saying that it's *about* a lot of things, but allow me some
>leeway). Death as that which is most proper, non-relational, insurmountable
>in the full-blown existential-ontological significance of the phenomenon
>(as Heidegger puts it so eloquently)....

[here follows a truly magnificent briar-patch of far-ranging, scholarly 
commentary, whereof I am equipped to understand maybe 5 percent]

>.... Hegel... transition from quality to quantity
>in Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre... Husserl.... Horkheimer and Adorno....
>the "mimesis of death"....
>
>TRP knows all of this (even if he hasn't read the people mentioned, he just
>knows it)

That's our guy!

>.... Seinlassen... Heidegger... Heid....Heraclitus -- *physis kryptesthai 
philei*....

Sometimes I wish I'd gotten a little more *involved* in some of my 
college courses.  I am not making fun of Paul's post (though I am 
chuckling to myself).  It's wonderful, and it's also a perfect example of 
how a lot of learning can add a lot to one's reading experience.


Cheers,
David