MDMD (1)/Vineland/GR

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

On this interesting connection, there's also the passage in GR where Katje contemplates 
the conversion factor between lives and information--the infamous negotiable jews, cunt 
and hershey bars passaage--Part 1, episode 11(?)--followed by the Narrator telling us there's 
an office in Washington DC where the ledger books are kept.

john m
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from dgg:

>Just a thought.  Freensi Gates (Vineland) ponders the BIG computer:
>
>"If patterns of ones and zeros were "like" patterns of human lives and
>deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented by a long
>string of lives and deaths? It would have to be up one level at least--an
>angel, a minor god, something in a UFO.  It would take eight human lives and
>deaths just to form one character in this being's name--its dossier might
>take up a considerable piece of the history of the world.  We are digits in
>God's computer, . . ." (90).
>
>Now in M&D we see Ethelmer pondering upon Wade LeSpark's Fortune, noting "If
>there are Account -books in which casualties are the Units of Exchange,
>then, . . . , his Uncle is deeply in Arrears" (31).
>
>So what's the computer/Account-book?  Karma?  I'm thinking it's America.