The ugly truth of science

[alice wellintown]

Kai, "BYW" is a typo. The letter "T" and the letter "Y" are next to each
other on the keyboard. I wanted to type "BTW" or By The Way. So, no insult.

And thanks for saying what you did about the absurd attempt to characterize
my position as racist or some such nonsense. I'm a science person myself.
I'm married to a famous scientist, as some of you know. I love my science
as much as my poetry.

I thought the mother was blinded and injured, while carrying the boy in her
womb, by an explosion, possibly a nuclear explosion, but I could be
mis-remembering.


BTW, check out Chabon's Review and this NPR Interview:

Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers
are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and
physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and
Herzog's new film on the earliest known cave paintings.


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> Ignoring the insult (had to look up "BYW" in the Urban Dictionary), I just
> wanna say that neither the technical details nor the control through
> science are thematic in *The Road*. The disaster could have just as well
> been another Tunguska. Modern science as such is important to Pynchon, not
> to McCarthy who wanted to write a quasi-biblical apocalypse for the 21st
> century. How the fictional situation arose is largely irrelevant. In no way
> McCarthy does unfold an actual criticism on science the way Pynchon does.
>
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> On 15.06.2013 17:16, alice wellintown wrote:
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>
> McCarthy does delve into this, BYW. _The Road_ is set after some kind of
> holocaust that burns the Earth to a crisp.
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