Prosthetic Paradise (was Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #1012

[rj]

> This is why I think
> Pynchon insists that humans not be put on the scale. Humans
> are not to be valued for their usefulness, understood by
> their purposes, but for their unique human elements and
> antecedents. 

This is the insistence Terrance ascribed to Pynchon, not the rather
obvious recognition that the author finds the A4 or US history
"interesting and important" because he writes about them.

best 

millison wrote:
> Not "insisting" that it's important and interesting etc