To Binah or not to Binah?

[Otto Sell]

Leave that "eventually" -
everything you can name is binary indeed, the thing itself and the word that
stands for it.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 8:36 PM
Subject: To Binah or not to Binah?


> >   isn't this stretching the meaning of "binary structure" a little too
far?
>
> Maybe! I mean, almost any system like that can be eventually broken
> down into binary oppositions -- hell, we can create virtual realities
> out of zeroes and ones....
>
> You know, there are really two ways of looking at it: everything is
> binary or everything isn't.
>
> Oh! Uh-oh....
>
> --Quail