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[ludd oafery]

Could it be viewed as a sort of mirroring?


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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."
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "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
>
>
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