More Lewis Mumford and Pynchon preechoes

[Mark Kohut]

CORRECTION. 

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> On Aug 22, 2014, at 4:58 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Remember the " breaking even" , Karmic adjustment notion in Pynchon's work? And more:
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> " Love and Chance, said Charles Pierce, rule the universe: but the love is man's love, and although in the very concept of chance, as both Pierce and Captain Ahab declare, there is some notion of fair play, of fifty-fifty, of an even break, that is some small immediate consolation for the creature that may lose not the game, but his life, by an unlucky throw of the dice." 
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> And Icelandic-Spar-like: 
> there is this: quoting Blake's "God save us from single vision and Newton's sleep" Lewis 
> Writes that Melville  "achieved the deep integrity of that double vision which sees with both eyes---the scientific eye of actuality, and the illumined eye of imagination and dream." 
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