VL--IV p. 71 Defining moment---and in the book too!, imho

[Michael Bailey]

Bravo!  Well put!
brings to mind Pointsman, and how his binary universe caused him to
make unethical choices.
Now for Frenesi, so tripped out as to perceive this one-zero as
something to relish...

On 1/6/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> To continue:
>
>  "here was a world of simplicity and certainty no acidhead, no revolutionary anarchist would ever find, a world
>  based on the one and zero of life and death. Minimal, beautiful. the patterns of lives and deaths."
>
>  Frenesi embraces the binary that Pynchon so despises, that shows where she gave up her full humanity.
>  That is Pynchon's way of "saying' that the fully-human is NOT ever so simple....is always full of uncertainty
>  and more. --An awareness of history, the dead, an imagined future for the not-yet-born......
>
>  To "live in the moment" as Frenesi decides is to "rebel' against our human connection with others. Feeling no connection,
>  betrayal is just another word for 'an action' that fills a moment.
>
>