SLSL "TSR" ...deliver us from nada

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I think one of the more intiguing aspects of the SL discussion,
if I'm allowed to become meta about it for a moment, is the
freedom from a purely linear approach that more or less
hemmed in the progress of the discussions of the larger works.
Interesting posts have been launched from anywhere and
everywhere in the plot. Not that that wasn't possible in the
discussions of the novels, but it was more problematic.

This rummination led me, for some reason, to a consideration
of the absent hurricane. At first, it seemed to me, that the
off stage presence of the furiously destructive storm was
in keeping with the other Greek aspects of the story, where
typically, violently earth-shattering events are kept off stage
and reported back, in dramatic fashion, by a messenger, to 
the oohs and ahs of the chorus- certainly made set design
easier- not to mention placing a premium on the use of dramatic
language. Special effects have really turned sceenwriting into
child's play, these days.

But then I remebered The Eye. That, for some reason, made
me recall Malign's intial post regarding the implausibility of the
hurricane's presence not being even a little in the consciousness
of Levine and company- the company area broiling slowly under
the sun- and I began to wonder if maybe the hurricane wasn't
so far off stage, after all.

Figuratively speaking, we are all at the center of our own pov.
And, inspite of the powerful technology that our objective
consideration of the world has given us, the view has come
with an obvious price; one which was not necessarily realized
before the advent of thermodynamics, Maxwell, Heisenberg, etc.

This angle may have already been mentioned. I could have
easily missed it in my own self-absorption. Anyway, here's
lookin' at ya...

respectfully