Pagan Propaganda: The Other Attack on Christmas

[Robin Landseadel]

It's electricity.

I'm one of those Heretical Pynchonians who think Pynchon uses  
confusing vocabulary 'cause it's confusing.
Note the following:

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/corey.html.

"I'm not making this up, you know!"
Anna Russell

On Dec 25, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Jude Bloom wrote:

> Deification I'm on top of, but I had to do the google on  
> reification... I supposed that it had something to do with king- 
> making -- rei or roi -- but I don't think so.  Here's what the  
> internet tubes report:
>
> Wikipedia
> Reification may refer to:
>
> • Reification (computer science), making a data model for a  
> previously abstract concept
> • Reification (fallacy), fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it  
> were a real thing
> • Reification in Gestalt psychology, where an object is perceived as  
> having more spatial information than is actually present in the  
> original stimulus
> • Reification (knowledge representation), used to represent facts  
> that must then be manipulated in some way
> • Reification (linguistics) in natural language processing, where a  
> natural language statement is transformed so actions and events in  
> it become quantifiable variables
> • Reification (Marxism) (German: Verdinglichung), the consideration  
> of an abstraction or an object as if it had living existence and  
> abilities; at the same time it implies the thingification of social  
> relations; sometimes called objectification
> • Reification (statistics), the consideration of a ‘perfect’ model  
> which is used to make inferences connecting (imperfect) model  
> results with experimental observations
>
>
>
> If I'm going to be a proper Pynchon reader -- I got the invitation  
> late -- I suppose I should know what it is that I'm up to.  Is it  
> quantification (CS, knowledge representation, etc.) or pretending  
> the books are real or.... ??
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> > Now let us return to the deification and reification of all things  
> Pynchon.
> >
>