Why do we embrace conspir theories

[Edward A Moore]

In Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon, too, deals with how the mind has
to find patterns, yes? I mean in some actual words about same, not just
in the plot pattern...................




http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/40.htm



For instance, Pynchon described Roger Mexico, a statistician who works
at a house full of psychics, as “the Dour Young Man of “The White
Visitation,” the spider hitching together his web of numbers.” (40)
What does Smith portray? Not Mexico crunching data, but an actual
arachnid whose spider web is littered with numbers.

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