TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1

[Mark Kohut]

Missed the tail-sucking, Mr. Burns, but I'm looking for it
and thanks Alice.............



----- Original Message ----
From: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Cc: ">alice wellintown" <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Sent: Fri, June 3, 2011 6:05:34 PM
Subject: Re: TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1

O-u-bore-us.

Not really, Alice! Just that the sucking its own tail is a key image
for WG (on the title page and on p 819).

(paging Glenn Scheper, white courtesy telephone please...)


On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:34 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...or how about an analogy to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle? Or to
>>> the
>>> idea that an electron is actually a particle riding a wave or a cloud more
>>> dense at "points?" Or "Schrodenger's cat," a "thought experiment"
>>> demonstrating how indeterminacy may be resolved by taking action in a
>>> situation, merging "blurred" and discrete"  models" of reality?
>>
>> All good possibilities but I'm getting kind of dizzy.  :-)
>> P
>
> But TR doesn't make me a bit dizzy. In fact, while a few odd sentences
> suck thier own tails, most of the narrative is a gentle ride. Examples
> are useful. How else can we pin a tale on a cat.
>