TT 1.3 - "The Recognitions"

[Jed Kelestron]

[In his working notes for the novel Gaddis wrote: "The Recognitions as
title I like perfectly because it implies the impossibility of escape
from a (the) pattern"]
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The character Otto's character Gordon says, "Orignlty not inventn bt
snse of recall, recgntion, pttrns alrdy thr. q. You cannt invnt t shpe
of a stone." This is not the only way the word recognition is used in
the text, but it is an important one. Recognizing the underlying
patterns, the archetypal substrate, the Platonic ideals. Ties in with
Aunt May's demonization of human creativity. Reality is already there.
It can't be created, only recognized.