Daddy v. Buddha: Candy Drilled

[jporter]

Terrence:

> As for the GR characters, work or working it out is a death
>trap, a suicide rap, you gotta get out while your young

So why should we let them die in vain? We must work to make their
pseudo-deaths meaningful.

>cause the infection moves all around you, even in your fairy
>tales and lullabies. In terms of interpreting history,
>another trap, a death trap. Enzian is the courageous one
>here and characters can't lay back and enjoy it, but the
>mindlessly pleasured ones, like the courageous Bodine or the
>Geli's Tripping can actively enjoy it.

I've become slitely bored with politically correct interpretations of
Enzian and his band of rocket gypsies. Likewise, I'd never allow my
Porsche, if I had one, to be liberated for "the cause." If I did have one,
however, I'd nick it "the schwarz car" not Bruno. (Pointy, of course, would
prefer a shag)

>Don't believe you're
>a witch?

Not me, ace. Give me war or lock me up.

>Can't live a Pig's life?

Not without wings.

>Have the courage of
>Enzian.

You forgot the question mark on that one, so I'll assume it to be either a
declaration, or, a rhetorical question. Either way, I'm white, so I guess
not.

>
>What's "Greek reductionism" ??

First, a question for you. You have read Terry Southern's _Candy_ and know
how it ends, right? If not, please check out:
http://www.terrysouthern.com/   And consider reading _Candy_. If you have
read it, then:

>From "The Theory of Everything," R.B. Laughlin, et. al. PNAS, 1/04/200,
vol. 97, no. 1., pp 28-31:

"The theory of everything is a term for the ultimate theory of the
universe- a set of equations capable of describing all phenomenon that have
been observed, or that ever will be observed. It is the modern incarnation
of the reductionist ideal of the ancient Greeks, an approach to the natural
world that has been fabulously successful in bettering the lot of mankind
and continues in many people's minds to be the central paradigm of
physics."

But later...

"So the triumph of the reductionism of the Greeks is a pyrrhic victory: We
have succeded in reducing all of ordinary physical behavior to a simple,
correct Theory of Everything only to discover that it has revealed exactly
nothing about many things of great importance."

I used the term Greek Reductionism in that context.

jody