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

[Mark Kohut]

because McTaggart's disbelief in Time carries no Teleological religious meanings as Augustine's does.......
   
  Augustine thought God's Eternity was where no time ended.......
  McTaggart did not. 
   
  'Steamed pudding" arguments are arguments over the meaning of Christmas, Christ's B-day, yes?
   
  Mark 

Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
  On 8/10/07, 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
...


       
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