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

[Bekah]

I think  both uses work in conjunction -  as abstractions of worldly phenomenon and reproduced in general ideas and or charts,  as well as in their personal paths crossing and recrossing.   Pynchon seems to be taking that abstraction and pulling it down - or taking the personal and pushing it up into the realm of the matrix/grid/dialectic. 

Bekah

On Mar 11, 2013, at 5:55 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Matrices are not always square.  I see it as all the personal paths crossing over each other at the Odeon.
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> On Monday, March 11, 2013, Monte Davis wrote:
> 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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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Mike Jing
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:11 AM
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> Subject: GR translation: dialectics, matrices, archetypes all need to connect
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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. . . .
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> What does "matrices" mean here?  I am only familiar with the word in the mathematical sense.
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