Mind-Bending Science In Thomas Pynchon's Mind-Bending Novel Against The Day

[alice wellintown]

No no, this is waste, we all poop here; nothing to it. Poop away. Like
those folks who get pooped on from the chums and his trusty mut, I am
amazed by scatalogicals from space.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Party pooper....
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> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:13 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Did the early 20th C readers of Joseph Conrad call him a poet who
>> mines the sciences and the political sciences and so on to  set them
>> in a human context? Look to The Secret Agent, a novel that certainly
>> was mined by Pynchon, a novel that Conrad has written a good deal
>> about, and, like P, rejected the critical readings of, claiming, as P
>> does about science, entropy and so forth, that he has no knowledge of
>> these topics above what any intelligent person could not take from
>> books that are easy enough to read at the local library?Now, I have no
>> rue objection to calling P a poet, although he is not one, although,
>> he once considered the art, as he did the art of writing plays, a
>> profession he wished he might make a go at. We do not call Shakespeare
>> a novelist. Yes, the history of the form does, in an English manner,
>> spring from his plays some years later, but Avon Bill retired to
>> Stratford as an author of plays and poems. P is novelist. Nothing
>> wrong wiht that. In fact, if one can write as well as Pynchon does,
>> after GR, there is something very right about that. So why belittle
>> the profession. It is not rocket science. Not even poetry. It is
>> fiction. And,as the Sloth essay Mr P published and the Luddite essay
>> he published attest, an author, an author of some playful child of
>> American Romance, of Luddite Fictions, is not fit to sit at the Royal
>> Society Table. Well, he may not wear purplle, but he writes it better
>> than any Rocket Scientist, even if he must turn sour grapes into
>> purple, violet, and lime, prose.
>>
>>
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>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > "Pynchon's achievement in Against the Day proves that he is peerless as
>> > a
>> > poet who can mine science for gems of insight and set them into the
>> > context
>> > of the humanity that is the ultimate concern of his novels."
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is cool. Thanks, Dave.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Prashant Kumar
>> >> <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >>> Do read the comments as well. Monte and others point out a few
>> >>> infelicities in the presentation.
>> >>>
>> >>> P.
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>> >>> On 10 August 2012 12:49, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thank you Mr. Monroe and THANK YOU Mr. White... a very helpful
>> >>>> "primer"
>> >>>> for the woefully Science-Illiterate...
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Dave Monroe
>> >>>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Mind-Bending Science In Thomas Pynchon's Mind-Bending Novel Against
>> >>>>> The Day: Part I
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>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> http://www.science20.com/adaptive_complexity/mindbending_science_thomas_pynchons_mindbending_novel_against_day_part_i-8804
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>> >>>>> Mind-Bending Science In Thomas Pynchon's Mind-Bending Novel Against
>> >>>>> The Day: Part II - The Quaternion Wars
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> http://www.science20.com/adaptive_complexity/mind_bending_science_in_thomas_pynchons_mind_bending_novel_against_the_day_part_ii_the_quaternion_wars
>> >>>>
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