Paleface Pynchon?

[Terrance]

Dave Meury wrote:
> 
> But it seems to me that this problem of rejecting the excluded middle
> covers many subject areas.  The truths of the world as ontologically
> concrete facts versus the world as experienced are often seen as contraries
> like light being either particle or wave -- can't be both, can it?  Maybe
> someone can fill us in on the transcendental unity of apperception.
>  (Terrance?)

Maybe not, though I think Seb's comments are 


> 
> Ironically, attachment to one side diminishes it, certainly from our unique
> vantage point.  " About which one cannot speak, one must remain silent."
>  True enough in the context of the neat philosophical landscape as laid out
> in the Tractatus but impossible in the morass we really inhabit  -- "not a
> disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into."



> 
> All feeling versus all intellect.  Low culture versus high culture (how
> could we identify either without the other?).  Howard's "end" versus
> _Howard's End_  (actually, I haven't read Howard's End but I couldn't
> resist the kute korrespondence).
> 
> Pale-red sounds like "half-baked" to me, caught in that middle ground, a
> zone neither fully Apollonian nor Dionysian.  Nonetheless, it's in that
> no-man's land where we all find ourselves to have been all along, a mixture
> of the mechanical, conceptual, design-making "realities" with the
> biological, emotional, organically-branching ones -- some of which we
> pretend not to acknowledge.
> 
> Before the flames begin, ("you elitist asshole, blah, blah, blah") let me
> say that I don't particularly care what people want to consume as their
> entertainment as long as I am free to choose my own.  It's O.K. to be a
> couch potato -- or not.  And, anyway, I admit to watching my share (hell,
> more than my share) of mind-corroding TV and movies and to reading my share
> of formula fluff.  But thinking is a temptation I try to indulge now and
> again, however short my efforts fall  -- premature Brennschluss, you know.
> 
> Let's see, now: delete or send?  delete or send?  uh-oh . . .