Thanks and

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut  wrote:

> I'm still believing, for the moment, that Yashmeen's put-down of conceptual,
> perhaps 'ideal' anarchism with McTaggart links McTaggart's concept that time
> is not linear "which is usually obvious common sense"----to quote AtD in the
> line immediately before it--  with anarchism as non-planning....

it is also Yashmeen who opines "why not just let Them have their war?"
I think that she is deeply self-involved with her love affairs, her math,
and perhaps being orphaned hasn't had a chance to develop a
fellow-feeling for people....

like Oedipa at the beginning of Lot 49, or Frenesi at the beginning of Vineland,
she is in need of enlightenment and compassion

> And I think it relates deeply to math and time themes...........still being
> worked out.
>

Robert Anton Wilson wrote about the Wheeler universe (John Wheeler,
the physicist, not Zoyd Wheeler the gypsy roofer and guitarist) -
where, each moment is a decision point and all possible decisions are
taken resulting in an infinity of universes.  Within this multiverse, time would
be a function of motion and decisions...
relating also to probability, the roulette wheel motif, and the
railroad and other
wheel motifs laying out a circle of possibilities radiating from wherever
an individual stands
thus - as I see it, with admittedly minimal math rigor - giving a
scientific basis to the sphere whose center is everywhere

Each time I've read it, I've skimmed right over the McTaggart references,
probably ought to look at them again...