pynchon agnostic? II

[thomas kyhn rovsing hjoernet]

On 09/03/03 14:38, "Mutualcode at aol.com" <Mutualcode at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 3/9/2003 7:36:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> tkrh at worldonline.dk writes:
> 
> 
>>> Rubbish. 
>> 
>> Impressive argument.
 
> The bottom line, Tom, is, although language is quite flexible and plastic,
> one trick it is incapable of pulling off is the representation of
> meaninglessness. Even "rubbish" or gibberish, in a linguistic sense,
> still has traces of meaning that any expression can't quite shake
> loose from- There's always gonna be that telltale shitstain, dingleberry
> or dribble- no matter how dligently a critter wipes, shakes or dances.

Agreed. Let me just find ... yes, here, Derrida's 'Signature Event Context':

'Š it is solely in a context determined by a will to know, by an epistemic
intention, by a conscious relation to the object as cognitive object within
a horizon of truth, solely in this oriented contextual field is "the green
is either" unacceptable. But as "the green is either" or "abracadabra" do
not constitute their context by themselves, nothing prevents them from
functioning in another context as signifying marks Š. But even "the green is
either" itself still signifies an example of agrammaticallity.' (Glyph 1: p.
185)

> The interesting question for me is whether the silent empire that
> preceded language, that great dark land of nod, or, ocean of potential from
> out of which homo lingus crawled- and which can still be integrated back
> to, in a sense, from all these differentiated babbles- is that huge engulfing
> silent potential presided over by a single magistrate, or, is that notion
> just another version of our collective paranoia?

The latter sounds rather likely, though its collectivity should, of course,
be seen not as in 'collective unconscious' but as in a collective tradition.

&:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him;
and without him was not any thing made that was made.

There you have it, it was all produced by language.


Thomas