Science Plays God

[malignd at aol.com]

Whoo!  Maybe you are Carville.  (Who haven't you been?)

And, don't confuse me with others who can't kick your ass in the science ring.




-----Original Message-----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Jun 12, 2013 5:53 am
Subject: Re: Science Plays God



Equipped for what, dude? Reading Pynchon is tough. Hey, that's one of the reasons I've been doing it all these years, one of the reasons I read all that stuff other readers write about P's works. I appreciate the experts, the people who come at the text from a focused angle,  who dive down deep into a passage and make connections with other texts and ideas, experts from other disciplines who enrich my reading.
 
 I support a pluralistic approach. 
 
But your approach is to deny the carpenter. He's the little man. Your the expert who has esoteric knowledge the rest of don't and can never have. A member of the elect. That's you, Monte. So fucking rocket science. 
 
And, don't confuse me with others who can't kick your ass in the science ring. 
 
 
And remember, you had trouble reading Pynchon's prose. His irony fooled you into thinking you were equipped. 




On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:


AW> I don't know if Pynchon consults with scientists, but to write a novel the ones he's written, or to read one, and this is far more important to our discussion, one need know very little about Tesla or Physics. 
 
And no one would deny that by this standard you are well equipped indeed.





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