Very, Very Misc. "nether bifurcation"

[Jamie McKittrick]

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> In major Cornell Prof E. A. Burtt's book, The Metaphysical
> Foundations of Modern Science, orig pubbed in flapper Gatsby era 1924
> ((revised in 1932, the paper edition I have), a copy of which I have
> found and want to look
> at re Pynchon and science and the Enlightenment
>
> .....there is THIS on the first page:   "Philosophers never succeed in
> getting quite outside the ideas
> of their time so as to look at them objectively--this would, indeed,
> be too much to expect. Neither do maidens
> who bob their hair and make more obvious their nether bifurcation see
> themselves through the eyes of
> an elderly Puritan matron."
>
> What a phrase in such a book, eh,-- in 1924?  What a yoking
> association. 'As above, so below", indeed.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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