Why do we embrace conspir theories

[Alex Colter]

Very much so. And not only do we find this with young Mr. Mexico but
Tchitcherine, Slothrop, PÖkler, and more.
I think of Byron as perhaps the only one truly free (by the time we meet
him) from the insanity going on below...?

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Edward A Moore <edmoorester at gmail.com>wrote:

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