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

[Paul Mackin]

David Morris wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> Mark Kohut wrote:
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>>> P 1050
>>> 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?"
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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.
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> Well way back when in GR (somewhere) there was a
> lamentation/observation that it was impossible to reverse time, play
> the film of life backwards.  I think I remember the imagery of a
> Mayflower ship sailing backwards, back to the Old World.  I think a
> part of this thought also relates to TRP's thoughts on taking a
> different fork in the road way back then, also in GR I think.
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> David Morris
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  I do remember the thought that the Slothrop heresy might have been the 
fork in the road America never took?

The idea is treated humorously in AtD where Halfcourt is trying to get 
to Shambala.

The Yogi Berra joke is resurrected.

You come to a fork in the road and take it.