VL--IV p. 71 Defining moment---and in the book too!, imho
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 09:07:50 CST 2009
Yes, this does seem to be Frenesi's stumbling point. But the "one and
zero of life and death" is an oxymoron, because the "life" portion of
that equation means much more than "not dead." The real meaning of
this minimal, beautiful equation is "the one and the zero of the dead
and the not yet dead."
David Morris
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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