GR translations: except for William the very first

[alice wellintown]

Tracking the rise and spread of the human species, Flannery contrasts
two more contemporary visions of the processes in play. The “Medea
hypothesis,” developed by the paleontologist Peter Ward, holds that
natural selection drives species to exploit resources to the point of
ecosystem collapse, and thus ultimately to destroy themselves. While
Flannery agrees that this theory describes some extinctions of species
and civilizations, he instead embraces the “Gaia hypothesis,”
developed by the ecologist James Lovelock, which sees evolution as “a
series of win-win outcomes that has created a productive, stable and
cooperative Earth” — at least until human selfishness got in the way.

I posted this review a few weeks back:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-here-on-earth-by-tim-flannery.html?pagewanted=all

I guess it is difficult to accept that Pynchon is more Emerson than
(insert any European here), but there it is.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:01 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> His RETURN, no deposit no return, while not quite a Reversible (more
> akin to Teilhard de Chardin's No Return, his physical journey or
> return to his native lands, is a figurative progress; What
> distinguishes William is not his physical movements so much as his
> spiritial one. The questions he raises, and, more importantly, the
> fact that he, a powerful and important man, but still a relatively
> "unlettered" man, when he is juxtaposed with those who find him guilty
> of (we might call it a sin or we might call it treason) writing a book
> that looks too deeply and darkly into the mysteries of the Father &
> Son, and specifically the the Passion and how Christ's sufferings, for
> TULIPs, is to be read by the congregation, are a Return to Earth.
> Beautiful stuff from young Tom.
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wow, fascinating stuff.  Thanks, Michael.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Michael Bailey
>> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> the first William Slothrop moved back to England and is buried there.
>>>
>>> viz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pynchon