Back to AtD On Chance

[Joseph Tracy]

Chance can be uncanny. Though I may go further than Ian, increasingly feeling that random causal physics is only one facet of how things work. 
On Dec 31, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> I've seen it at work in far too many instances to doubt the role of chance in life. Failure to acknowledge it in literature is merely fabulous. If you call it an acausal connecting principle, you can make it have meanings that may not be there, but the chance occurrence is real, common.
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> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Addendum from a Modernist artist, Paul Klee:
> "There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental."
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> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 5:40 AM
> Subject: Back to AtD On Chance
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> The 'and who did he run into next' way of moving the plot along in AtD has been commented
> on and, if we find it some kind of lame, we have to accept it in reading AtD.
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> But, with chance as an overt theme throughout, does this stylistic trope mirror that purposely
> or did TRP just get lucky by the meaning of words?
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> "We know that the mask of the unconscious is not rigid--it reflects the face we turn towards it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect, friendliness softens its features."  
> --C.G. Jung