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[Ian Livingston]

As I said in an aside to Mark, synchronicity is not possible in a linear
universe. Science changed with high modernism, and the arts reflect the
subsequent great changes in the universe.

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:44 PM, ludd oafery <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could it be viewed as a sort of mirroring?
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> 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
>>
>>
>


-- 
"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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