AtDDtA1: The Falling Darkness

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I guess I'm pointing to the way Pynchon often splays 
out subject/object relationships in his writing, where 
what's being pointed to is 30 pages back and variations 
of a similar sort. Doers and do-ees plie up and get 
confused over time. Getting characters jumbled up is part
and parcel to the general level of anarchy on display 
throughout the novel.

Maybe not relevant, but interesting nonetheless:

http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=rk-epistemology

Selected passages:

"I've always liked what philosopher Alfred North Whitehead 
said about the two great forces of the universe: One is what 
physicists would basically call entropy, which is essentially 
the loss of focus, and dissipation of energy, and increasing 
randomness, and so on, and the other is the opposite of 
entropy, or negentropy, which means becoming more complex, 
having more focus, and operating at a higher harmonic or 
concentration of energy. He was impressed with the way in 
which everything in the universe, living and nonliving, was 
participating in one process that had to do with entropy and 
then also has the possibility of participating in the opposite 
process—not just "running down," but "running up," so to speak. "

"When you get to the edge of the fourth order, you start to see that 
all the ways that you had of making meaning or making sense 
out of your experience are, each in their own way, partial. They're
leaving certain things out. When people who have long had 
self-authoring consciousness come to the limits of self-authoring, 
they recognize the partiality of even their own internal system, even 
though like any good system, it does have the capacity to handle all 
the "data," or make systematic, rational sense of our experience. In 
the Western world, we often call that "objectivity." But just because 
you can handle everything, put it all together in some coherent 
system, obviously doesn't make it a truthful apprehension—or truly 
objective. And this realization is what promotes the transformation 
from the fourth to the fifth order of consciousness, from the 
self-authoring self to what we call the self-transforming self. So, you 
start to build a way of constructing the world that is much more 
friendly to contradiction, to oppositeness, to being able to hold on
to multiple systems of thinking. You begin to see that the life project 
is not about continuing to defend one formation of the self but about 
the ability to have the self literally be transformative. This means that 
the self is more about movement through different forms of 
consciousness than about the defending 
and identifying with any one form. "

"In Abraham Maslow's work in the sixties, he created a space for people 
to talk about experiences that just did not fit in with their normal way of 
understanding themselves, the kind of experiences that we tend, 
therefore, to discredit or just leave out. And he was saying that maybe
those are little messages from our future. We have all kinds of ways of 
screening out these little messages that come from the future. It's not a
future that none of us have actually been in, but a future that every one 
of us probably has been in that is outside the ways we construct reality. 
If we can find ways to actually start listening to these messages even 
though we cannot quite make them fit in to our current way of 
constructing the world, they might be of enormous value. "


http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/SemWebCourse_files/WP/Invention_Machine.pdf

Robin L:
> That "something" is deliberate misdirection

I don't see it. On p. 13. the only identifying details are "a lady" and
"female companion" [not, for what it's worth, "a little girl"] with "masses
of fair hair."

On p. 26, at the next appearance of the "same photographer and model," the
"young woman" is unambiguously identified within half a dozen lines as
Chevrolette. Dahlia, four or five "with flaming red hair," shows up a page
later.

I've previously missed a Pynhonian venture below the age of consent, and
been set straight

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0611&msg=110276&sort=date

But here I see neither any hint of the Rev. Dodgson School of Photography
nor any effort at misdirection -- only an expectation on the part of the
original poster.