..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space

[Michael Bailey]

Joseph Tracy wrote:
>> essentially 2d space has no more correspondence to anything real in my
>> experience than trying to imagine 5 or more dimensions.

maybe so, but there's an easy rough approximation in a sheet of paper
to a 2-d space

other than that, I agree with the rest of what you said, for the most part

math is really just an extension of language, a tool for communication
- all those symbols and equations can pretty much be parsed out to
words if need be...

as a Pynchon fan, having noticed how math concepts spice up  and round
out the texts, I consider that literary representation of math can be
artistically done...

I too have never been a huge fan of Flatland, it just doesn't engage
me and never has, although I respect its place in the canon.  As
William Gass said, if you don't like a classic, the fault's yours, not
the classic's...and I can live with that, though I don't think that
means I'm devoid of the ability to be inspired by math descriptions,
because I found the math passages in AtD pretty inspiring.