Deflating Hyperspace

[Paul Mackin]

On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:04 PM, rich wrote:

> are the Chums then the pre-cursors to the famed Schwarzkommandos, a  
> fictional entity, which turns out to be real in the realm of fiction

Are you saying the grownups at first think of the  Chums as just  
story book characters but after a certain amount of interaction with  
them realize  that both parties have equal ontological status?

That would be quite a clever thing to have happen and sort of like  
the Schwartzcommando business.. We should watch for indications of this.

I say "grownups" but has it been noticed or remarked upon by others  
how often one of the non-Chum characters will be referred to as  
"young" Mr. or "young" Miss So and So?  Don't know if I'm  
exaggerating. But anyway the normal presumption would be that  The  
junior Traverses  and  the  principal women in the story are fully  
functioning adults.  Is something  otherwise possibly being  
suggested? It's a thought.



> kinda like Pynchon's penchant/method for digging up obscurities  
> seen by us as bunk but in many cases turns out to be real

Here you're talking about REAL real. Nonfictional. Have to think  
about it.

P.


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> rich
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> On 4/1/07, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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> On Apr 1, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>> BUT, if the Chums, 'fictional" adventurers are NOT to be admitted  
>> to the harsh nonfictional world then isn't it because that world,  
>> Einstein's world is the REAL ONE??
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> That's what I intended to imply.
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> Actual physics  is TOO real for Pynchon's methods (whatever his  
> ultimate purposes and meanings, which may be quite serious).
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> Better to play up  Riemann, which is only the math.
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> Just as the totality  of WWII was too real for GR.
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> Better to focus on the rocket and the zany side shows.
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> The way I tend see it anyway.
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>> Paul Mackin < paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Lot of good stuff has been said on this. (Tore, Daniel, Monte,  
>> others)
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>> To me Einstein is best left out of things because E=mc2 is too close
>> the "harsh nonfictional
>> world . . ., " the chums are NOT to be admitted access to. (p. 36)
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>> P.
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