GR translation: dialectics, matrices, archetypes all need to connect

[Monte Davis]

Dialectics, matrices, archetypes: organizing schemes, systems, principles
abstracted from the world, elaborated by those sitting over their notebooks
at the Odeon. I read "matrices" as  tables with rows and columns, into which
everything must fit.

 

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P266.17-27   He finds that he has drifted as far as the Odeon, one of the
great world cafes, whose specialty is not listed anywhere-indeed has never
been pinned down. Lenin, Trotsky, James Joyce, Dr. Einstein all sat out at
these tables. Whatever it was they all had in common: whatever they'd come
to this vantage to score . . . perhaps it had to do with the people somehow,
with pedestrian mortality, restless crisscrossing of needs or desperations
in one fateful piece of street. . . dialectics, matrices, archetypes all
need to connect, once in a while, back to some of that proletarian blood, to
body odors and senseless screaming across a table, to cheating and last
hopes, or else all is dusty Dracularity, the West's ancient curse. . . .

What does "matrices" mean here?  I am only familiar with the word in the
mathematical sense.

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