We are lost to any sense of a continuous tradition.

[Paul Mackin]

Mark Kohut wrote:
> Perhaps if we
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>> lived on a crest, things would be different.  We could at
>> least see.
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> Do the Chums "live' on a crest, so to speak?
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Either that or the non line of sight conditions aren't too bad farther 
down in the valley.

Don't people "see" into the future at various places in the book?

Grammar question:  At the crest would we be able to see "farther" into 
the future, or "further?"

The teacher always said "farther" pertains to distance, but what 
pertains to space-time?


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> --- On Wed, 7/23/08, Robert Mahnke <robert_mahnke at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> From: Robert Mahnke <robert_mahnke at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: We are lost to any sense of a continuous tradition.
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 8:05 AM
>> I saw this last night and thought it had curious echoes of
>> AtD:
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>> Perhaps history in this century, though Eigenvalue, is
>> rippled with gathers
>> in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil
>> seemed to be, at the
>> bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp,
>> woof or pattern
>> anywhere else.  By virtue, however, of existing in one
>> gather it is assumed
>> there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles
>> each of which come
>> to assume greater importance than the weave itself and
>> destroy any
>> continuity.  Thus it is that we are charmed by the
>> funny-looking automobiles
>> of the '30's, the curious fashions of the
>> '20's, the peculiar moral habits
>> of our grandparents.  We produce and attend musical
>> comedies about them and
>> are conned into a false memory, a phony nostalgia about
>> what they were.  We
>> are accordingly lost to any sense of a continuous
>> tradition.  Perhaps if we
>> lived on a crest, things would be different.  We could at
>> least see.
>>
>>  
>>
>> V. 155-56 (1986 ed.).
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