CoL49 (6) Either ... or ...

[Mark Kohut]

True or not true...either-or.....remember that a major character flaw in
Frenesi was ACCEPTING that binariness.......

Oedipa is a heroine because she does not accept binariness.......She lives--the very end of the novella--in uncertainty. 

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: CoL49 (6) Either ... or ...
> To: kelber at mindspring.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 1:12 PM
> 
> 
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, kelber at mindspring.com
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> >
> > She had heard all about excluded middles; they were
> bad shit, to
> >> be avoided." (ibid.)
> >
> >
> > Clumsy wording or profundity?  How do you avoid
> something that isn't there?  But maybe that's the
> essence of paranoia.  Fallopian's explanation, that
> Oedipa's whole quest had been set in motion as a prank on
> Inverarity's part, is something that Oedipa had avoided
> looking at.  It falls between the 0 (there's just
> America out there) and the 1 (there IS a Tristero at
> work).  Along with Oedipa, we don't want to believe
> Fallopian.  In fact, I don't believe him.  Surely
> it's a case of getting Oedipa to ask the wrong
> questions.  So examining excluded middles can actually
> be harmful, if it deters you from examining the stark
> truth.
> >
> > Laura
> >
> Think it's just a hip way of saying a proposition is either
> true or not 
> true.
> 
> Not sure everyone believes that nowadays.
> 
> P
>