"Single Up All Lines"Re: The Beginnings of Infinity by David Deutsch

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks much for this....yes, very worth encountering...I think I may......

meanwhile, this seems like as good a place as any to put
down another Pynchon-relevant McLuhan idea

He stresses over and over, like a non-linear piece of music, that, in the Mechanic Age, which still exists massively
in the Electric Age (until it wipes that away), is where the whole western world had to learn to
deal with about everything one fragment at a time,after one fragment at a time....

Piece by piece, bit by bit, all lines singled up.................

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:52 AM
Subject: The Beginnings of Infinity by David Deutsch

In the interest of knowing thy enemy (speaking as a Pynchonian) this guy is the supreme anti-est Luddite you are every going to want to meet.  Laszlo Jamf would approve. The goal is to see Nature gone for good. (only a slight exaggeration)


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/the-beginning-of-infinity-by-david-deutsch-book-review.html?_r=1&ref=books