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[Tore Rye Andersen]

Doug:
 
> 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?
 
"film and calculus, both pornographies of flight" (GR, 567). 
 
See also p. 155, where Vanya holds forth:
 
"look at the forms of capitalist expression. Pornographies: pornographies of 
love, erotic love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, pornographies of sunsets, 
pornographies of killing, and pornograhies of deduction - *aah*, that sigh
when we guess the murderer - all these novels, these films and songs they
lull us with, they're approaches, more comfortable and less so, to that 
Absolute Comfort. [...] The self-induced orgasm."
 
 

  		 	   		  
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