GRGR 1,1: Pirate's Ascent/Desent

[Meg Larson]

One of the things that's always intrigued me about the opening of the 5th 
"episode"(p. 29, Penguin)--that's what we called each section in my 20th 
Century Lit class--is the séance, and the idea that in order to understand 
the living, one must commune with the Dead.  This notion ties into the 
"other ways of knowing/believing" of which you speak.  Science is cool and 
all that, but it is not ALL . . .
M.

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From: "jporter" <jp3214 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: GRGR 1,1: Pirate's Ascent/Desent


> Precisely. The novel follows the same process- the intertwining
> of science and other ways of knowing/believing- on several
> levels: They can be seen as mutually informing metaphors in
> an open way, which does not privilege one or the other at
> any given time, or, as mutually exclusive truths in a closed
> system.
>

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