Pynchon & Math (Aristotle vs. Plato)

[Michael Bailey]

Paul Mackin wrote:

> Pragmatists accept religious experience, but only as just another
> experience.   They say that just because we might EXPERIENCE something as
> spiritual and immaterial, that does not mean we MUST posit immaterial man as
> a definitive choice, as opposed to a strictly material one. Percy's writing
> seems to disagree.
>

well, in Pynchon's writing there are references to immaterial bodies
("their auras, for the record, are green" and so forth) which blossom
in various places in AtD and in the
perhaps-not-so-lightweight-as-may-be-thought IV.
While this isn't exactly the same as "immaterial man", still it does
extend the concept of human being out beyond the "five senses world"
as some may have at times called the rationalistic experienc

> Just a brief reaction to the discussion.  Probably totally out to lunch.
>

where?  how about that Deux Magots?  its mention in AtD caused me - a
longtime non-looker-upper - to actually confirm that its name has
nothing to do with the offspring of flies...