TRP: "small Latin and less Greek"

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> I think TRP was seriously telling the Dude and all of us that he was not packing
> all the baggage (or HIDDEN allegories) of many of his allusive concepts---such as entropy most famously---
> but there are so many others---but just sayin' I use them my way....for metaphors and meaning within
> my fictions.....
>

absolutely I agree that he uses them for his own purposes,
what I stress is that he made a point of disclaiming specialist knowledge
in the technical fields, and that he expressed a posture of
some diffidence about his oeuvre...
which is refreshing and one of the things I like about him.

but what you are saying is also true: he rings his own changes on the
material, well enough that plenty of people have been moved to chime in,
and beguilingly enough to make some of us plow through, inter alia,
math popularizations, just to get the references (which I still
haven't finished doing,
but will probably have to post about when I do...)

what in AtD prompted me to want to do that?
well, I guess when Yashmeen's skirt caught that gust of sea wind...
a-and that episode in Hilbert's classroom where Yashmeen shared
a wild surmise...
also that 4-dimensional museum in the town where Riemann died
where Kit and Yashmeen wandered through, where they're guided
by a monitoring voice from beyond...
and the line of Cyprian's "I know nothing of the zeta function,
but much of obsession" (or words to that effect)

and many such non-technical touches that played me like a piano...





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