perspective detective

[Paul Mackin]

Haven't read Gnostic Pynchon. It's out of print now, isn't it? Yes,
the ACHIEVEMENT of perfection is mostly thought of as Eastern--an Eastern
IDEA--though the Greeks had a word for it too. Modern Western man
can only DREAM of the perfection of the MATERIAL world--either through
an Eastern import called Christianity--which promises but may never
actually deliver the Resurrection of the Body--or through
Technology--which someone once defined as digging a new hole in order to
get enough dirt to fill up the hole one has just previously dug, and
recursively back forever. Technology fixes are never really expected to
reach perfection.

A vast oversimplification no doubt. 

			P.

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:

> 
> Thanks Paul, I have a lot more to add to those blasphemous
> rockets. The Both/AND reading that I want to get to requires
> that we see the Devil. Great Quote on Faust and the Devil,
> Richard, thank you. You know exactly where the argument is
> heading. Have you Read Gnostic Pynchon? Yes, the "Gnostic
> without transcendence", Harold Bloom said that about GR.
> There is NO solution, only Recognition, only Celebration. Of
> What? Of what is perfect and complete. This is not a
> principle you will find in the West, well not to often.
>