Fwd: Re: The Gospel of Alan Turing

[David Morris]

--- Ann Oy <annoy at innocent.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:39:24 -0800
> To: David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com>
> From: Ann Oy <annoy at innocent.com>
> Subject: Re: The Gospel of Alan Turing
> 
> Naw. I'm new to Pynchon and like all newbies, I'm
> being overly purist. The
> stuff's all in the text. My opposition is to going
> outside of the text to
> Names Of Important People.
> For instance, when Oedipa Maas' "needle skips a
> couple of grooves," we
> could say that a non-deterministic machine (her
> brain) is getting a random
> jolt. Or we could say that she's being led by the
> skipping as in ESP or we
> could say she's just fucked up.
> Now my reading suggests that each of Pynchon's books
> encompasses much of
> the input he had within the period of each book.
> There's a hell of a lot
> more than Turing in 'Crying . . .' There's Shannon,
> Hamming (which no one
> on this list has heard of), and more. If I start
> yapping about Hamming,
> does this enlighten anyone? Nope. Furthermore, the
> work of mathematicians
> depends on no physical interpretation. Not
> strangely, neither does the work
> of theologians for Christ's sake. So let us
> thankfully skip the physical
> interpretations and leave them to Pynchon.
> 
> David Morris wrote:
> >Made perfect sense to me, more or less.  All of
> this
> >thread has been nicely developed.  Some of the best
> in
> >recent P-list discussion.  Is it this "discussion"
> >which annoys you?
> >
> >DM
> >
> >--- Ann Oy <annoy at innocent.com> wrote:
> >> Was any of the following supposed to make sense?
> >> 
> >> j wrote:
> >> >> But he speaks of overwhelming statistical
> >> evidence, and of "telepathy-proof
> >> >> rooms."[snip]
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