Bitz of lies

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:48 AM
Subject: re: Bitz of lies
>
> Philosophers find their way into his P's texts, as scientists do, not so
> much because P writes a fiction
> of ideas or even an encyclopedic fiction or even  because P understands
> more than your average engineer about science,   but because he writes a
> literature that is very much 20th century American.  Also, I suspect
> that the philosophical ideas and the scientific theories in the fiction
> can be best understood as the grand secularizing forces of the 20th
> century that P became so very interested in after reading Henry Adams.
>

"The Education of Henry Adams":
http://www.bartleby.com/159/
Seems as if the whole text is online. Just snagged the site.

A history of the calculus
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/The_rise_of_calculus.html
(snipped the *http//* to get the url complete)

Otto



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