AtDDtA(15): F.I.C.O.T.T.

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/10/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> In each case the joke breaks off - pointing to
> extratextual factors perhaps?

Thanks, for ALL of yr post, but here of course is where The Dude'd
fire up the ol' Magic Eye ...

http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_49_hollander.htm

... and I'd at least attempt to do so, but I ALSO suspect that Pynchon
sometimes simply has a good eye/ear for the particularly ludicrous.
But the first question to ask would be, why WOULD a McTaggerite and a
neo-Augustinian come to steamed pudding blows?  Seems to me they'd
agree to a certain extent, on the putatively illusory nature of time.
Then again, Catholics and Protestants, or, for that matter, Christians
and Jews and Moslems, agree to a cretain extent on much as well, so
...