Vegas

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 16:54:26 CST 2009


alice wellintown wrote:
>If you read the post on the drugged balloonist (from Russell's ABC of
>Relativity), and I think it fair to say that Bertrand Russell's POVs
>and Einstein's POV, while a fantantice as anyhting Pynchon or HST has
>produced, were not altered by the use of LSD or other drugs, and if
>you know something about markets and Brownian Motion, and if you apply
>these to a Adorno-Benjamin critique of slot Machines and reproduction
>technologies from prinit to internet (real/reel), and view this
>through the critical soft-anarchist lens of Thoreau (resistance), it
>makes sense. P continues to write about Bartleby, the scrivener, a
>story of wall street. This makes peferct sense. To parse terms is a
>waste of time.
. . .
Ewww, Fractal Spam. Alice, if you would read the damn book it may 
reshuffle your deck and present a brand new family of fractal 
systems. Perhaps you could supply biographical sketches of P in order 
to explain his writing. Oh, wait. That's not in the book. All the better. 




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