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

[Ian Livingston]

There is some indefinite distance between that smile and my perception of it.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think I agree with that thoughtful last remark but I am ambivalent. Smile.
>
> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: "That poised "ambiguity' "that might be Pynchon in AtD?
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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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