Back to the past....riffing on THE PRESERVED

[Keith]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

Kinda silly though. You can argue that unless air, water, food, goes  
in and urine , sweat, air, and shit  come out, then the organism  
dies. Death is dissolution, not communion. What about sounds, vision,  
love, bodily fluids? These must also break our discretion if life is  
to thrive and continue. I know this is a character speaking, but  
conceptually  I don't buy it as bearing much insight.
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Ain't that the truth. The quote is not really Pnin,
but the narrator, who is actually somewhat Kinbotian
- indeed silly, pretentious, unstable, unreliable,
more paranoid than insightful. Your reading is quite
accurate in my opinion.