Back to AtD. "her eyes were enormously given"

[Prashant Kumar]

I get that with a lot of TRP. I think they begin somewhere similar:
stripping away Ideals from society, nature, et cet. and using them in
world-building. But in "putting the pieces back together" I think they
overlay different aesthetics. They both seem to me to use science and maths
this way at least.

P.

On 23 August 2012 14:25, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Nice....
>
> Belated probe. I haven't read Borges for a long while, except for what has
> gone around on
> the plist guitar lately.........
>
> But, my sensibility and Morris' remark on his leads me to ask: Does this
> line feel to anyone
> else as if it might be filtered, so-to-speak, through Borges' sensibility
> by TRP?...Somehow
> you can feel Borges in it?......
>
>
>
>   *From:* David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> *To:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:42 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Back to AtD. "her eyes were enormously given"
>
>  To me it sounds like quantum counting.  Hard to keep count.
>
>
>
>
>  p. 949..."The farmhouse was teeming with children, whough when Cyprian
> actually counted, there were never
> more than two."
> A beautiful line to me....like how a non-Tolstoyan "realist" of a later
> century captures the fact of active children irrealistically.
> (Remember the kids in the opening of Anna Karenina?)
>
>
>
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