MDDM The world is the case [WAS World-as...
jbor
jbor at bigpond.com
Tue Aug 13 05:57:23 CDT 2002
[...] Presumably intelligent talk flickered around the room with the
false brightness of heat lightning: in the space of a minute Siegel
caught the words "Zen", "San Francisco", and "Wittgenstein", and felt a
mild sense of disappointment, almost as if he had expected some esoteric
language, something out of Albertus Magnus. [...]
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/vienna.html
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on 13/8/02 3:54 PM, Bandwraith at aol.com at Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> The private teletype in my mind is chattering
> away... "Whereof one cannot speak... {Damned
> 'Spherics, always just beyond reach)... "The
> limits of my language...SCREECH! Can't seem
> to quite bring it home, but I'm tired, nearly
> hallucinating.
>
> Maybe it is all just a scurvy induced dream
> on a circular bed, signifying nothing, but if
> that's "The Case" it's all we've got.
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