Deflating Hyperspace

[Daniel Harper]

On Monday 02 April 2007 00:28, you wrote:

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>
>    I agree to some degree , though is seems like P bounces around
> between sci-fi hints, the Tom Swift approach  of the chums and the
> Mary Shelly, King Kong , Shackleton approach of  Vormance expedition,
> and the more complex world of the earnest students of Gottingen to
> show the many ways science is interpreted and used as  actively as  a
> mythic  and political force as it is as a  technological force.
>

Well, far be it from me to suggest that Pynchon's just doing one thing at a 
time in any of his works. <heh>

> I agree with Tore about Einstein . The way P has handled this also
> has the dual effect of making him more present through his future
> importance at resolving some of the questions being asked,  and of
> giving a richer sense of the context out of which Einstein  emerged
> and the importance of the groundwork for his thought experiments and
> theories.

It's possible that we're overestimating the importance of Einstein to ATD. The 
absence of quantum theory, for instance, is _at least_ as importance as the 
absence of relativity....

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