C of L49:

[rich]

tho pynchon never makes anything easy interpretation-wise

there is also a fear some characters have of non-uniformity like
Dixon's fear of unenclosed spaces, Squalidozzi and the Argentines
similar sentiments re: pampas, e.g.
(tho these fears lead to what is certainly those despised orderly patterns, no?)

On 6/11/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Agree with this take.  Also, apologies for lurking, but being too busy to
> post.  Great hosting, Mark.
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> Laura
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>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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>>crystals ..are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all
>> three spatial dimensions."
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>>Let's all think on how OBA and certain logically ordered patterns---uniform
>> street grids; right angles; certain maths? ---
>>are, shall we say, not-positive associations in his world?
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