"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR, p1

[David Casseres]

I get all horny when you talk like that.

On 10/24/05, Humberto Torofuerte <strongbool at gmail.com> wrote:
> The primary theme of the works of Pynchon is the fatal flaw, and subsequent
> meaninglessness, of the Logocentric equivalence of the Heisenberg principle
> and Shroedinger's cat. In subsequent chapters the subject is contextualised
> into a postdialectic paradigm of context that includes culture as a whole.
> It could also be said that Pynchon suggests the use of the subtextual
> paradigm of consensus to modify reality.
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> On 10/23/05, jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Unlike the calculating Wrath of The Intelligent Designer
> > (WID) which led, according to ID enthusiasts, to the
> > image we see in the mirror each morning, the Wrath of God
> > (WOG) is something from which we have been fleeing since
> > long before Rita, Katrina and the collapsing Twin Towers.
> >
> > WOG, in it's peculiarly western version, has had us on the run
> > since Yahweh slammed shut the Gates of Eden.
> >
> > It might be worth noting, also, that prior to this prolonged
> > tantrum directed towards humanity, WOG was directed at a
> > whole series of often cranky and vain, if less megalomaniacal
> > deities, who served us well, before the dominance of monotheism.
> >
> > Despite that, the opening evocation of GR has always struck
> > me as generic, rather than specific, in its intention. I reject
> > the idea that The Evacuation is "about" the Holocaust alone,
> > although, certainly, there are over (and under) tones.
> >
> > The advent of a centralizing  principal around which the swirl
> > of written history, like the skirts of V., sorts Itself out, is
> > seductive,
> > and may be the Logocentric equivalent of the Field Theory of
> > Gravity.
> >
> > I think, however, that the over-arching intention of the opening
> > evocation suggests a connection- tracking through the furtive
> > warren-like passages of western epistemology- between mono-
> > theism and science, which, if left unrecognized, leads to bad things.
> >
> > jody
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