Habitual morning cup

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/16/2011 10:53 PM, Mike Jing wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:28:23 -0400
> > Subject: Re: Habitual morning cup
> > From: alicewellintown at gmail.com
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >
> *snip*
> > morning. The flask belongs to the pavlovian, Pointsman. Pavlov
> > allusion. Pavlov used such a flask with seeds in it.
>
> Are you sure?  To me it appears to be a description of Mexico's 
> office, with his textbooks and Jessica's snapshot and whatnot.  Am I 
> mistaken?


Somehow Roger has obtained the Erlenmeyer from Pointsman's lab down the 
corridor.  Or. the flask might be the same one Roger was carrying the 
ether in earlier  (through that one would be probably have been smaller 
that the coffee brewing size).

Pointsman goes in to talk to Roger about statistics, which, if Pointsman 
only knew it, were as important to ones and zeros as they are to  
locations of bomb strikes.

In the forties many experimentalists were not as statistically 
sophisticated as they are today.

P




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