Recog ch 2 last word is "alchemy" in that chapter

[edmoorester at gmail.com]

Sheesh. . I believe this went the way of phrenology another pseudoscience.

You have to hand it to Gaddis for bringing it up.

These are just more ways in my view to exert some control over events. . .
to eliminate chance. . .in the context of one of the themes. . .

Also I found his linking of the city of Paris with a horny chick  
interesting.

"And Paris waited, as ever ready as Phyne beset by slanders and threats,
to rend her robe and bare her breasts to the mercy of her judges." p 73

and 2 pages later
"Toward evening the shadow of the Eiffel Tower inclined to the Latin
Quarter across her body. She prepared, made herself up from a thousand
pots and tubes, was young, desperately young she knew herself and
the mirror forgotten, the voice brittle" p75

Paris is just a "faked imperial Rome" p72 who started out imitating it
then sold out? It's promise of or past glory now diffused and corrupted by
these people we hear in glimpses of conversation?


ed
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