GR translation: We have to play the patterns.

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Or maybe "the patterns" are social expectations?

On 06.03.2013 14:09, Markekohut wrote:
> Waxwing may be a Nabokov allusion and in his chess novel, THE DEFENSE, 
> the protagonist
> Begins to see (chess) patterns everywhere in his life.
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> On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:00 AM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net 
> <mailto:montedavis at verizon.net>> wrote:
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>> The first thing that occurs to me is the gambler’s fallacy 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy>, as GR is largely 
>> populated with people who see grand conspiracies in randomness -- and 
>> vice versa. Also chess (cf. Der Springer), in which skilled players 
>> acquire a gestalt grasp of the array on the board; also perhaps a 
>> hint of spatial formations – deployments on the field -- in team sports.
>>
>> *From:*owner-pynchon-l at waste.org <mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org> 
>> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On Behalf Of *Mike Jing
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 06, 2013 2:42 AM
>> *To:* Pynchon Mailing List
>> *Subject:* GR translation: We have to play the patterns.
>>
>> It dawns on Slothrop, literally, through the yellowbrown window 
>> shade, that this is his first day Outside. His first free morning. He 
>> doesn’t have to go back. Free? What’s free? He falls asleep at last. 
>> A little before noon a young woman lets herself in with a passkey and 
>> leaves him the papers. He is now an English war correspondent named 
>> Ian Scuffling.
>> “This is the address of one of our people in Zürich. Waxwing wishes 
>> you good luck and asks what kept you so long.”
>> “You mean he wants an answer?”
>> “He said you’d have to think about it.”
>> “Sa-a-a-ay.” It’s just occurred to him. “Why are all you folks 
>> helping me like this? For free and all?”
>> “Who knows? We have to play the patterns. There must be a pattern 
>> you’re in, right now.”
>>
>> What is the meaning of "play the patterns"?
>>

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