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

[Paul Mackin]

Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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?
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> Remembrance of a Bilocal Past?, so to speak?...
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> 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????
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A remembrance or recordation of what MIGHT have happened.

Or even sorta  happened.

Might we want to think that there is a completely different reality out 
there AN EIGHTH OF WHICH HAPPENED?

Admit that the current reality is only 87.5  percent true.

Apply quantum level thinking to our macro world.

So what does it mean that we are only PROBABLY here talking to each other.

Does Pynchon know?

Does he expect us to figure it out?

P.



> --- On Thu, 7/24/08, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Paul Mackin
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>> <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
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> reverse time, play
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>>> the film of life backwards.  I think I remember the
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>> imagery of a
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>>> Mayflower ship sailing backwards, back to the Old
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>> World.  I think a
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>>> part of this thought also relates to TRP's
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>> thoughts on taking a
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>>> different fork in the road way back then, also in GR I
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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?
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>> The idea is treated humorously in AtD where Halfcourt is
>> trying to get 
>> to Shambala.
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>> The Yogi Berra joke is resurrected.
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>> You come to a fork in the road and take it.
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