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

[Mark Kohut]

Is TRP, in the Remembrance of Things Past strain that has been seen in AtD,
offering a vision of a non-deterministic Time Past, metaphorically?

Remembrance of a Bilocal Past?, so to speak?...

In GR as remembered by some below nothing can change, and more than once in AtD we have heard---'we can't go back the way we came"-----yet in part of this working metaphor, change IS possible????

--- On Thu, 7/24/08, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: AtD (37) p.1050, Paranoia runs deep....more musings prob. for nought
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 5:05 PM
> David Morris wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Paul Mackin
> <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> >   
> >> Mark Kohut wrote:
> >>     
> >>> 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?"
> >>>       
> >> Probably all these things, but you can be sure
> that, with Pynchon involved, entropy and information loss
> are lurking in the background.
> >>     
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> 
>   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.