SLSL Intro (A Couple-Three Bonzos

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In a message dated 11/9/02 7:27:00 PM, barbara100 at jps.net writes:

<< I'm reading him at face value in the Introduction.  It never occurred to me

he'd be disingenuous.  (...)  Whatever voice he takes on, I always think of 
him 
as being sincere. >>

The problem is, who is "he" that is genuine and sincere? There 
is only whomever our separate projections of whom "he" might
be against which to measure and judge.

I agree with you, by the way, regarding the single underlying
movement with the same but different manifestations- beat
and hippie. With the notion of the narrator's mid-point perspective,
or "transition point," we have an interval with a beginning, a mid-
value and an end point. This has obvious mathematical implications,
particularly with respect to the reciprocal relationship between the
processes of differentiation and integration, but that must wait.

I would only speculate, here, that the narrator of the introduction
is one of a "dreiergruppe," if you will. That is, a doppelgänger plus
one, or one of the three bonzos, to be cute. And, that the real "he"
behind them all is about as real to us as Carl Barrington is to the
gang of kids in TSI. That is, essential, but requiring a little effort
to see, hear or otherwise allow to be.

respectfully

"You have a constant predilection for
adding up.  But it is also necessary to
subtract.  Integration alone is not enough,
disintegration is essential too.  That's what
life is.  And philosophy.  That's science,
progress, civilisation." 

http://www.usyd.edu.au/philosophy/lesson.html