V---2nd still dangling....the Reimann Hypothesis. For Michael Bailey

[Mark Kohut]

Thank you. it takes a whole list to read a Pynchon..


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From: Ray Easton <kraimie at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, March 21, 2011 7:59:50 AM
Subject: Re: V---2nd still dangling....the Reimann Hypothesis. For Michael 
Bailey

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> appears again early in Against the Day...page 12....as it is
> brought in saying...."there is not enuff time" to rig Miles
> in a parachute the doing of which would "tax the topological genius
> of herr Riemann himself".......
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I don't think it matters much for the point you are making, but just
for the record... this does not appear to be an allusion to the
Riemann hypothesis, but rather to Riemann's work on "Riemann
surfaces," something different and unrelated.

Ray

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> Here's what I mean about this book: I might gloss this by saying
> in this virtual aside--but never really--TRP packs in his theme of
> time, living in it, the chance to do so humanly running out and
> linking it to Reimann's Hypothesis (of 1859, as MB reminded us)
> and therefore the line from V. about when the historical disease started
> And, even more speculatively, suggesting the Reimann Hypothesis is
> symptomatic of the disease......................
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> Just sayin'.
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