Misc. os, 721 and others

[Mark Kohut]

Would anyone care to make the case that to live
in "uncertainties", as the psychologists say, is generally
the best, maybe the only, way the positive characters can in TRPs world,
in general?

Was the uncertainty too much for Slothrop, hence.....gone?



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From: "grladams at teleport.com" <grladams at teleport.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 7:59:25 PM
Subject: RE: Misc. os, 721 and others

That is interesting. Keith J. Devlin, a noteworthy author of popular
mathematics books, says something about mathematicians' mind set in the
first chapter. I'm reading his _The Millennium Problems_ right now. I don't
have it in hand but the he says something of their strong crave for
certitude, & truth, and how this sets them apart from other people
It's a very good book by the way. He also wrote a book called The Math Gene
which apparently goes into that dimension as well.

Jill

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From: Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:37:23 -0800 (PST)
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Misc. os, 721 and others


yashmeen jokes about being her old self [Cyprian] 
"And who would that be?"

728 Dally looks in the mirror and sees "the same American mask with
the same American eyes" looking through......[Why American twice?}
Anyway, she is still herself.

"not too many anarchists in the math line"......................
a putdown of math?

729...Penhallow, the artist-figure, looking more complex due to sun-goggles.
First appearance of goggles?....to shade against the sunlight? 
Ruperta also wears a 'sun-veil"...


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