IVIV family

[Doug Millison]

I know you just re-read GR, Mark -- doesn't the novel even seem to  
consider calculus as a kind of  "pornography" in this sense, in that  
calculus is a mathematical representation that can come close but  
never quite close enough to portray the real-world phenomenon that it  
seeks to represent?



On Dec 11, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> I'm liking this read a lot......I think a strong strain of  
> independence--in thinking, in "not following leaders; feeding  
> parking meters [maybe]"; in finding and living out one's own  
> psychological life ala Jung, others is there in his work......
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> so, this dovetails....
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> --- On Fri, 12/11/09, Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at COMCAST.NET> wrote:
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>> From: Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at COMCAST.NET>
>> Subject: Re: IVIV family
>> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org 
>> >
>> Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 1:12 PM
>> Maybe it's "addiction" itself that's
>> the problem? Instead of normal, healthy relationships with
>> other people and things, we sometimes develop addictions
>> instead.  Recall how Pynchon's work goes after
>> "pornography", described as the phony and inauthentic
>> representations of life that we humans sometimes prefer over
>> the real thing. The perfect sunset on the postcard instead
>> of life on the real Gordita Beach, for example.
>>
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>>> Mark the K;
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>>> …without further thought I guess I see the GF as our
>> addiction to THINGS that destroy us, whatever that
>> means......
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