Chance, concept of, Redux

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              Mark Kohut:
              We know from Slow Learner that TRP was taken 
              with surrealism early. Fed, matched his comic style, 
              at the least.......

Who's Fed?
 
              MK:
              From an obit of a jazz singer and writer (I had no 
              idea of his singing, but I read a book of his on music 
              long ago)...and anarchist, I encounter this 'Surrealist 
              Slogan'; 

                                "The certainty of chance"......

Very Jazzbo that, eh? Can't you just hear that one rolling off the tongue of 
Lord Buckley? Also, consider [as TRP does, over and over again in AtD] the 
garden of forking paths: not only the choices we make and paths we take, 
but the degree [demonstrated every couple two three pages or so] that 
chance forks that path.
 
              MK:
              Singer-writer-artist's name was George Melly. wonderful 
              obit was in The Economist, which I will send if y'all can't 
              get it and are interested.

              . . . .the singer whose party piece, when touring with 
              John Chilton and the Feetwarmers, was to scamper 
              round the stage and groom the clarinettist's head during 
              his rendition of “Organ Grinder Blues”, would admit that 
              his thoughts on the river bank were of poppies, midges, 
              Magritte and clouds. . . .

http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9467099
 
              MK:
              . . . .The Certainty of Chance IS a chapter title in the BIG 
              COMPLETE book on TRP and all his work.....agree?//    
              co-think?....riff on?

My big book is "Geli Tripping: Pynchon's Countercultures". But of course, the 
"Big Book of Pynchon" is like onto the library of Babel, including [but not 
limited to] the set of all sets.
 
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