ReCognizer firms hips and buttocks ch 2
edmoorester at gmail.com
edmoorester at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 22:28:31 CDT 2011
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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