TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1

[cfabel]

Yep.

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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Paul Mackin
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 5:13 PM
To: alice wellintown; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1

On 6/3/2011 5:34 PM, alice wellintown 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.
>
I meant
the uncertainty principle
the incompleteness theorem
the uncomputability problem
information entropy
negentropy
as they relate to Self
stuff like that.
:-)

P