ReCognizer firms hips and buttocks ch 2

[edmoorester at gmail.com]

Animal House
"The time has come for someone to put his foot down, and that foot is me."  
Dean Wormer

(awkward metaphor. . . does gaddis use those?)

"Was Milton trying to tell us that being bad was more fun to than being  
good?" Mr. Jennings
"I find milton as boring as you find Milton. Mrs. Milton found him boring  
too." Mr. Jennings

I think this applies to Gaddis. . .anyone?

Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People (From "Guns, God, & Government")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGD468f1_Kc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
"The beautiful people, the beautiful people
It's all relative to the size of your steeple
You can't see the forest for the trees
You can't smell your own shit on your knees"


I only know this song well because of rock band 3's pro fender squier  
guitar option and it is the medium challenge level song and whilst  
listening to lyrics a "recognition" occurred to me . . .


I doubt Marylin has read this book. . . in the interest of recasting old  
truths or whatever please take his perspective. . .


Are my epiphanies just "recognitions"?


I smoke grass and drink wine and gin btw. . .


http://biblioklept.org/2009/08/12/the-recognitions-part-i-william-gaddis/


pascal's wager (ur life might be viewed as a game in terms of . . .ur soul!)


Pascal's Wager
In the seventeenth century the mathematician Blaise Pascal formulated his  
infamous pragmatic argument for belief in God in Pensées. The argument runs  
as follows:

If you erroneously believe in God, you lose nothing (assuming that death is  
the absolute end), whereas if you correctly believe in God, you gain  
everything (eternal bliss). But if you correctly disbelieve in God, you  
gain nothing (death ends all), whereas if you erroneously disbelieve in  
God, you lose everything (eternal damnation).

How should you bet? Regardless of any evidence for or against the existence  
of God, Pascal argued that failure to accept God's existence risks losing  
everything with no payoff on any count. The best bet, then, is to accept  
the existence of God.

Gaddis mentions Pascal somewhere in ch 2. . .I think this is what he  
meant. . . .

Anyone?

ed
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