Back to AtD. "utopian dreams' p.942

[Mark Kohut]

Can't believe I found this right AFTER posting below.
goes out to Monte (and Prashant) in the tradition of.......echoic counterpoint, at least. 
 
John Dewey, american pragmatist, "Symbols, as has already been noted,
afford the only way to escape from submergence in existence".....[wow]
The liberation afforded by the free symbolism of mathematics is often a means
of ulterior return to existential operations that have a scope and penetrating power
not otherwise attainable. The history of science is full of illustrations of cases in which 
mathematical ideas for which no physical application was known suggested in time
new existential relations.".....from The Play of Ideas in The Quest for Certainty. 
 
25 words or less on this re Yashmeen....(almost a direct gloss, yes?)
 
 

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:37 AM
Subject: Back to AtD. "utopian dreams' p.942


reef's politics are the politics of being slighted under class hostility. 

Cyprian is apolitical, politics of the quip. Gotta be inspired be Wilde a little, yes?

Yashmeen, sharing Anarchist beliefs, wishes for transcendance...akin to what she sought
in higher math....

and Jenny wants "planetary oneness"...beyond political forms..an Age of Aquarius kind of person?

Thoughts?
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