Back to ATD. "You'll want cause & effect"--GR. AtD p.942

[Ian Livingston]

Blake comes to mind. Innocence chooses to ignore experience because it is
too scary--it involves change and such.

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Might have overlooked this but for backing-and-filling. This whole section
> of Against the Day, which I have been crawl-combing through, needs all
> to have a reading on, since it is NOT all savage ambiguously resonant
> satire.
> Much of P's 'touching bottom' vision is here, i suggest.
>
> Anyway, riff: p. 242. whoever, whatever serves as a narrator in this
> section,
> beyond Cyprian and Yashmeen and Reef, sez:  "After a send-off party that
> went on all night, to be remembered for an innocence in which everything
> was still untouched by cause and effect,"......
>
> discuss meaning of 'innocence' here.
>
> Relate 'cause & effect' remark to GR use....& to
> the whole of logic in life.
>
> Whatever comes to mind.
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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