Pynchon & Math (Aristotle vs. Plato)

[Markekohut]

alice quotes Chodat:
> is, will be inclined to follow Kenneth Burke’s lead and treat these
> texts as extended proverbs: vivid, protracted warnings about what to
> avoid when describing the mind, what dark fly-bottles we can enter
> when we’re not careful in our accounts of cognition and intention. The
> texts will seem to be primarily what Burke referred to as proverbs of
> “admonition,”55 and pragmatists could appreciate them much in the way
> that devout Christians might appreciate the thoroughly fallen worlds
> of Poe or Cormac McCarthy.


> But like such a Christian, pragmatists will
> have trouble accommodating any claim that these texts depict the most
> important truths about us, or what things are really like, or what we
> essentially are or have done. 

False conclusion. Pragmatists' beliefs are not, rightly understood, like essential 
Christians' belief. Pragmatists are not, by definition, absolutists as Christianity
Is ( in essence).

Burke's insights still hold even with the most apocalyptic fiction, IMHO. all good
Fiction speaks of the world. All good fiction is fiction. both can be true.