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[Terrance F. Flaherty]

keith woodward wrote:

> Thracymachus Flaherty wrote:

Thracymachus is a Sophist.  Although, an ancient teacher of Rhetoric is not too far
off.

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> Pynchon suggests at numerous points during GR that the world might be read
> as a text (particularly once we enter the zone), for what it's worth.

YES! And the rocket as text too.

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> Whether the WORLD world is a text?  Beats me, dude, I just work here.  But
> I would suggest that it's not too far-fetched, it is composed of
> signifiers, of a sort, to be read.  As you've read before, no doubt, there
> is that approach by some (put on your hamlet hat):

Yes! And I find the idea of the world as a text ridiculous. Shakespeare is a pure
Sophist, but for his mirror held up to nature--Objective--not Personal view of the
world. Hamlet is caught between, a tragic character in a world out of tilt.
Remember RIIs mirror, the Great Sophistic Poet. Sophists make great artists.

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> "Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought
> through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and
> seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust:
> coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was
> aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his
> sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro
> di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane,
> adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a
> door. Shut your eyes and see."

Curious I am attempting to tie Stephen and Hamlet into TCOL49--Driblette in
incestuous gray. I let you know if it pans out.

Terrance Nicomachea

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