AtD (37) p.1050, Paranoia runs deep....more musings prob. for nought

[Paul Mackin]

Mark Kohut wrote:
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> What's it all mean--the ability to change the past?  Is it a metaphor for a kind of regret cancellation in one's life? That chance to "if only I could go back and do something different in that situation?" Another machine--- as a "dangerous" technological device, it is NOT a good thing in TRPs world?---that promises a backward kind of perfection?...Or, if the owners get it "just right" is the best privacy invasion of all time?.The "perfect" life detector with no escape?  EVERYTHING you have ever done could always be seen?  (Reminds me of God's eye (Western Christian version) and of the Final Judgment, as literally expressed when I was younger).
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Probably all these things, but you can be sure that, with Pynchon 
involved, entropy and information loss are lurking in the background.

If the world is postulated as a network of relationships (no things, 
only processes) that  involve nothing but information passing from 
observer to observer, then there are bound to be "disagreements" about 
what actually  happened. (who was located where)


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> Lew used to have these bilocational experiences in England...he would "go off" somewhere else....a kind of mind travel metaphor?......then just 'dreams' and diminishment 'with no time to brood".....like all the choices we felt we could have made but didn't, then got set into our 'real' one-and-only lives?... 
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> "Gorillas" = brutes of guys. thugs. 
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> "P.Q." Paranoia Quotient? 
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> When Roswell worries that Hollywood types will do to him and his machine what he fears was done to Louis Le Prince, who was real, "makin' it all disappear might not be enough for them"?...is this about Hollywood America revising its past?  Making it all disappear? Able to eliminate all the hidden 'truths'--injustices, violence
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There are other ways besides information loss to alter reality.

Goons

Lawyers

Just watched the dvds of the first season of "Damages," the FX legal 
drama. 
> Lotsa the 'thoughts' here remind of the spy chapter to me....fear-mongering
> with fear of spying everywhere...
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