afterthought per Ray and Richard

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut  wrote:
>
> Re Pynchon: Had I world enough and time I would remake the case that Pynchon is fictionally against imaginary numbers in AtD, in my controbversial opinion.....akin to the way Samuel Johnson was against 'fantasy' but with a full deep vision of the origins of the modern scientific worldview.
>


wow,  okay, what is so bad about imaginary numbers?

I think he's against the impoverished math of bookkeeping,
the maximization of profits without considering other values.
At least some passages in AtD and GR support this.

Without a cite that I can summon,
I still think he digs on the imaginary numbers.  I think he's intrigued
with mental mechanisms that allow people to be passionate about
intricate systems such as math...with interactions among mathematicians
and the oddnesses of some of their lives...

> See my post on 'touch' in the Penny-Doc scene....simple, banal value YET subtly placed and >echoing throughout much of TRPs work. So, I believe I have seen and pointed out anyway.

approximate date of said post, may I ask?



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