MDDM World-as-text

[David Morris]

>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>
>From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> >
> > So why not say the world is a painting or a dance?
> >
>"In Mexico City they somehow wandered into an exhibition of paintings by 
>the beautiful Spanish exile Remedios Varo: in the central paintings of a 
>triptych, titled 'Bordando el Manto Terrestre', were a number of frail 
>girls with heart-shaped faces, huge eyes, spun-gold hair, prisoners in the 
>top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled 
>out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: 
>for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests 
>of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the 
>world."
>Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49

It's funny that as I approached the end of my first reading of GR back in 
1985 I thought to my self, "Pynchon has created a tapestry."  This was 
before I'd read any of his other works, and long before I had much of a clue 
to "understanding" GR.

David Morris

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