"That poised "ambiguity' "that might be Pynchon in AtD?

[Mark Kohut]

I think I agree with that thoughtful last remark but I am ambivalent. Smile. 


From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
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Currently eading through parts of PK Dicks Exegesis and it deals with this same debate on an internal level, he tends toward the Lacanian or in his case gnostic. .  The fact that both arguments are very very  persuasive is perhaps the most unsettling aspect of human consciousness. 

On Dec 10, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Lacan’s central insight -- namely, the idea that the real entails an irreducible gap or rupture. By contrast, a common metaphysical assumption that is shared by both naïve scientific materialism and religious theism, Johnston argues, is the notion that Nature/God is an inviolable “One-All.” As he puts it, “It is not much of a leap to propose that the scientism accompanying modern natural science as a whole . . . tends to be inclined to embrace the nonempirical supposition of the ultimate cohesion of the material universe as a self-consistent One-All.”

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