Back to AtD p. 947 the map is the territory

[alice wellintown]

a fine essay, that appears in that very wonderful Oaky Law Journal on
the works of P, that is, the law of excluded middle, that is, a major
western idea, not quite a major as original sin, either to the west
generally or to the mind of P, but, and, anywayz, that essay is quite
useful in many repsects, and argues that early P is an excellent
introduction to the later works. and, Todriguez is essentailly on the
mark when he tells is to look to the story of Mondaugen, a figure some
have called the mood dog, bit certainly, as Grover & Co. are, the very
best way to comprehend what the mindf P, that is, after all is done
and said, an author of american fiction and not some misfit scientist
or frustrated student of math sucking sour grapes....but, as Rodrigues
argues, the mind of P, always resistant extremes, to centainties, to
defineite representations. BUT WHY? why resist the absolute, the
definite, the model, the map, whatever it is that de-fictionalizes, in
a sense of makes of life, a model we can use to deal with ambiguity
and doubt and all the chaos that henry adams and his education pushed
before our claims..... anyway...read...that law journal again....and
there...cerainly, though not with any truth or certitude, a notion we
find in the great modernists, woolf, joyce, yeats, eliot, pound,
conrad....there, on the other side, in the middle of the other side,
in bold letters, underlined, and, undermind, in irony, is the koan.