Hysteron proteron

[David Morris]

Cool concept.  But can we get a specific!

On Friday, August 10, 2012, Dave Monroe wrote:

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> http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/aug/03/can-the-future-affect-the-past
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> http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6224
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteron_proteron
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> Another technique that may be worth mentioning is Pynchon's extensive
> use of the hysteron proteron -- a literary trope involving retrograde
> motion, regression, or a reversal of cause and effect. At many times
> in the story events are described in reverse order, a literary
> slight-of-hand that works to pry our linear concept of Time from its
> stubborn entrenchment. Journeys are imagined moving in reverse,
> objects are mentally disassembled, and films occasionally run
> backward. This tendency for reversal reaches its greatest
> manifestation in the fall of the Rocket itself -- the fact that the
> sound of its descent comes after its faster-than-sound impact is an
> idea that stimulates an interesting variety of emotional responses in
> the novel's many protagonists.
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> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_grintro.html
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