Atdtda34: a Singularity

[Keith Davis]

Maybe a minor note in this discussion, but it's Tunguska with a "u". Went
looking for info on the net...

What would infinite gravity mean? The center point, or anti-point, of the
black hole? The ultimate bathtub drain?

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "It begins to look like a singularity"--Dr. Vanderjuice, p.797
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> [Technological] Singularity with modern associations went wide around
> 1993, as SFwriter VignorVerge [VV's!!]
> popularized it....Seen as an "intellectual event horizon"....gotta be a
> major meaning of TRPs,beyond gravitational singularity as metaphor--altho
> look at all
> that THAT carries including infinite gravity!....
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> Technological singularity refers to the hypothetical future emergence of
> greater-than-human intelligence through technological means.[1] Since the
> capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human
> mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen
> as an intellectual event horizon, beyond which events cannot be predicted
> or understood.---from wikipedia article
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> resonates all the way to The Trespassers maybe?
> A gravitational singularity (sometimes called a spacetime singularity) is
> a place in a black hole where the gravity is thought to be infinite. Most
> scientists do not think that it is actually infinite, but it is useful for
> their maths to treat it like it is.
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> can AtD's Tungaska Event carry all these meanings or did TRP get a bit
> balloonish? "little lame
> balloon man"--ee cummings
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> From: Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:45 AM
> Subject: Atdtda34: Nobody knows, 964-965
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> The previous section reports what must be ongoing conversations about the
> war. There was a clear contrast between 'a bright future ahead' and the war
> that Reef/Yashmeen/Ljubica are, evidently, following; this point is
> reiterated in the opening line of this section, dialogue that puts the
> protagonists at the centre of the action (where, previously, they were
> marginal to it). Here, their subjective outlook ('what I know where I am,
> now') is at odds with a more generalised account; until the final paragraph
> on 965, where people are replaced by armies, the labels that confirm the
> status of this or that unit, there is a refusal to allow an authoritative
> narrative to simply tell the war-story.
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> Moreover, 'the horizon of the unimaginable' (964) perhaps reminds us of
> both
> 'the storm of fearful hearsay' (963) and Reef's inability 'to express his
> feelings to Cyprian' (961). The way the two men communicate, or don't, is
> tied to the way the war is constructed as something that is known about but
> elusive.
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> Top of 965, Reef/Yashmeen/Ljubica intrude on the 'major battle' that is
> announced here: what we see described are 'processions across the plains
> ...' etc, while the 'Krupps guns thumping in the distance' are as close as
> we get to military action. The 'temporary packs' of dogs stand in for
> armies
> similarly concerned to take advantage of the situation: like Reef in the
> previous section, they are scavengers, of course.
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