HELP!
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 6 10:43:06 CDT 2003
--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > Please, Otto, tell us poor Molly Bloomers, in plane words, please, why
this is absolutely correct or how it makes sense to you.
> >
> >
> > Because it's a simple scientific fact. No big thing at all. Paul's words
are very plane.
>
>
> But I can't understand him and you can. Can you "translate", please?
>
> I pose the question to the list. Any one? What is Paul talking about now?
>
> He won't tell us. Otto won't.
Well Otto just did a pretty good job of explaining how he understood this. But
you're both right, because this "everything is a construct" thing is also a
construct, and not literally true. I think what you're arguing about is the
level of abstraction being employed.
David Morris
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).
http://calendar.yahoo.com
More information about the Pynchon-l
mailing list