Byron on the Grid (WAS What hooked me on Pynchon...

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Don't know if that describes Pynch or not, but the Grid sure sounds like the Internet,
doesn't it? A-and, wonder what Pynch makes of the pre-millenial rush to embrace programs
of self-development (not unlike those prototyped by M&D raver B. Franklin) that say
the answer to being "powerless to change anything" is to change one's attitude and
thus change everything, get what you give, love and be loved in return, and thus
change, in fact and deed, the world.

>On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Meg Larson quotes:
"Byron, as he burns on, sees more and more of this pattern.  He learns how to make
contact with other kinds of electric appliances, in homes, in factories and out in
the streets.  Each has something to tell him . . . Someday, he will know everything,
and still be as impotent as before...the Grid is wide open...He is condemned to go
on forever,knowing the truth and powerless to change anything."





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