pynchon theme line in Prometheus

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/9/2012 9:49 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Cruising the distant planet for signs of life and reason to land, the
> young scientist who believes there was life there sees .....linearity
> and sez:
> "God doesn't create in straight lines...."
While on the topic of creation, is Yashmeen some sort of Promethean 
figure, With her maths, I mean. Don't remember where in the book, but 
didn't she see human betterment coming from what she thought she was 
doing? And she certainly didn't end up moving in a straight line.

P

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