afterthought per Ray and Richard

[Mark Kohut]

Ray Easton asks:
Well, I think most of the meat's already been picked off
> this bone, but I can't resist asking, because I am genuinely
> curious, why do you think this?

First, because I think that TRPs hugely ambitious satiric excavation of modernity includes the mathematical-scientific roots of it in history.

More subtly,--and even more controversial, maybe--- I do think Pynchon's vision of the simple good life, lying there in ATD (and GR, etc.), would include (by implication) simple mathematics but NOT the use of all mathematics, real as it is---in the world and in AtD. I think he may be 
treating the higher mathematics in AtD as he does many other things in his fiction. To state the extreme for effect: like he treats the Rocket in GR. 


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--- On Thu, 11/26/09, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:

> From: Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net>
> Subject: Re: afterthought per Ray and Richard
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 8:40 AM
> Mark Kohut wrote:
> > But I do think our author has perspectives on
> mathematics that matter to his vision. 
> > He is fictionally 'against' some.....category mistake
> or not, irrelevant for the fictional vision.  
> >   
> 
> 
> Well, I think most of the meat's already been picked off
> this bone, but I can't resist asking, because I am genuinely
> curious, why do you think this?
> 
> 
> Ray
> 
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>