Back to AtD. "her eyes were enormously given"

[Mark Kohut]

Overnight this possible ob surfaced as well. Morris' quantum counting gloss, your ob as well,  then leads me to see this as
that kind of 20th century scientifically-based perception that is in the fabric of the text, ala Monte's insight back in the day.
 
OK, I'm just sayin' what y'all know, right. But I think this is a nice example. 
 


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From: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: Back to AtD. "her eyes were enormously given"


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....
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>Belated probe. I haven't read Borges for a long while, except for what has gone around on
>the plist guitar lately.........
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>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?......
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>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"
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> To me it sounds like quantum counting.  Hard to keep count.
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>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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