More 'stupid' unsytematized connections in life w Pynchon's "vision"

[Paul Mackin]

On 8/20/2011 2:10 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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> Pynchon is, do we agree, anti-systemizing for living one's life?....anti-binary, anti-???

If everything's connected you got yourself a system.

However we don't suppose Pynchon is particularly paranoid in real life.

I don't think Pynchon has an EXAGGERATED focus on systems, such as you 
might find in autism. but his novels  testify to a whole lot of system 
thinking--about such things as cartels, conspiracies, chemistry, 
rocketry. At least one critic sees a kind of quasi-theological system 
doing battle with an equally powerful system of death. A Hegelian system 
perhaps. Also Kathryn Hume's analysis incorporates a mythological system.

Pynchon may well be against "The System".

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> A doctor's theory about the growth of autism in Americans....
> In the late 1990s, he'd come to believe that a common cognitive profile — a tendency toward what he called systemizing (focusing on systems and how they work), combined with noted deficits in empathy, or the ability to read and relate to others — existed both in people with autism and, to a much lesser extent, in many of their relatives
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> Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/19/could-the-way-we-mate-and-marry-boost-rates-of-autism/#ixzz1VargYFF9
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