V--2nd how about that ending, eh?

[Michael Bailey]

Richard Fiero wrote:
> bandwraith wrote:
>>
>> I was thinking (conjecturing) more along the
>> lines of a composite situation, where each
>> node along the way has a real and imaginary
>> value, i.e., is a composite of the two, with the
>> usual literary tendency of conflating the real and
>> the imaginary, in order to transcend the map/
>> mapped dilemma.
>

so that's why they do that...


> Not sure about the "imaginary" part. "Complex," maybe. That's just a two
> dimensional mapping with entirely useful polar or rectangular coordinates.
> The square root of -1 might seem a little trippy alright but it is an
> entirely useful coordinate system.
>

that last sentence would make a good t-shirt slogan...

the whole notion of real & imaginary parts etc, again with one's
lit-major hat on...it's just a fine and natural move to unleash them
from (some of) the constrictions of mathematical rigor - Prudence
coming out to play

so if the setting each of the 16 chapters of V. has a real and an
imaginary part... in an ordered-pair relationship...
x being "Baedeker-gleaning"...y being "brainchild"

There are certain types of criticism where the quest is to find how
everything in the story refers to something "real" - where we trace
influences, track down references, determine membership in schools
--- doing that would be like, (x, f(x))

a story that could be completely pinned down that way would be, like,
formulaic fiction?