re Re: Marshall McLuhan & Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

In these terms, it Slothrop in GR, unlike Oedipa in COL49, might be seen to
"integrate" or "dissolve" into many individuals in GR. Thanks for a
thought-provoking post.

Jeff Meikle:
[...]   McLuhan believed computers would
enable us to translate all languages simultaneously and eventually
move us beyond language to instantaneous telepathic communication,
becoming one vast mind, like his guru Teilhard de Chardin's
anti-entropic noospheric Omega Point--a state Oedipa fears when she
experiences a hint of it while dancing with the ballroom of deaf
people who are moving effortlessly in time to music they can't hear.  [...]
She refuses to dissolve into
LSD like Mucho (who encompasses so many individuals--he's a whole
room of people) or into the Pacific like Driblette.  She remains
apart, individual, separate, isolate.  She refuses to integrate,
though she's drawn to the  auction at the end.



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