Missing parts

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

jporter wrote:
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> Me (before the bough breaks):
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> I think both Adams and the pynch had/have an inkling that the human form,
> especially the human form of self-consciousness, was/is transitional, a way
> station, if you will, along the cloudpressed lane.... Some place to work
> out the kinks involved with becoming aware of the stupendous responsibility
> for the evolving form's form: in charge of our own evolution, or at least,
> what it signifies.
> 

OK.
> Is there any reason not to regard the scientists on both sides of The War
> as heroes? The holocaust is a red herring, and Pynchon is wise merely to
> provide context and allow it (whatever it was/is) to define itself in any
> given reader's field of view. The knowledge obtained through the scientific
> method is neutral, and so, it seems, are the evolutionary forces which have
> lead to us.
OK
 
History is just a parlor-time story re-told to give
> encouragement to those that follow, to find a time and space and cluster of
> eager ears for their own tales. What could be more important?


Is this Pynchon, Adams, or You?
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> Von Braun can be seen as one of those who saw reaching for "beyond the zero
> and death" as more than "mere instances of human hubris and failure." We
> are standing on the shoulders of failures. Whatever follows us will have
> the right to judge.
> 
> jody