Horst-Maxine-Windust

[David Morris]

I don't understand your statement, " If everything is causally
connected, free will, and all its trimmings, are convenient illusions, or
perhaps, in this case, convenient frauds."  I don't think all-connecting
causality precludes free will, because the multitude of free wills are ever
intervening causes, and quantumly unsure of path. And I thus fail to follow
the rest.

David Morris

On Saturday, February 22, 2014, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:

> Alice, David- perfect. Exactly the dichotomy the
> experimental design, and coincidentally- if you
> believe in such quaint notions- the novel, seek
> to examine. In the case of H-M-W, is it just M that
> connects the two; are all other correlations trivial,
> Oedipa Maas-like projections? The design
> of the experiment seeks to explore the question
> on the cosmic scale. If everything is causally
> connected, free will, and all its trimmings, are
> convenient illusions, or perhaps, in this case,
> convenient frauds; self-serving, to be sure, but
> self-anything, in this context, smells of fraud.
>
> What might a pro Nose turn up in Denmark?
>
> Einstein is on the ropes, but he's not down. He
> still has one Vector left in his quiver. It's the
> biggest Vector on this side of paradise, and it's
> pointing, for lack of a better target, right at US.
> It's coming from somewhere in the neighborhood
> of Sagittarius, and its intentions, if that's the
> proper term, seem awfully familiar.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sat, Feb 22, 2014 10:27 am
> Subject: Re: Horst-Maxine-Windust
>
>
> Interbeing.  Nothing is not connected.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sat, Feb 22, 2014 9:53 am
> Subject: Re: Horst-Maxine-Windust
>
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> Horst does not adopt the new technologies that have all but buggy-whipped
> the traders in Chicago and in NYC by the time he moves to NYC.  He takes a
> sublet in the tower not because he has finally given in to computer trading
> but because he wants to keep at his old craft trade as long as possible. He
> is, as he says, a dinosaur. As he says, the computer trading has taken over
> and he can do his job anywhere now, but he wants to trade the old way.
> Though the trading pits in the building of Lower Manhattan are on the lover
> floors, Horst takes a sublet at the top. These floors have been relegated
> to the old world traders, guys and gals who trade bonds and act as dealers
> for UST Securities, so Cantor Fitzgerald the Firm hardest hit on September
> the 11th. The novel clearly sides with Horst and his craft. His magic, his
> luck and fortune, not unlike the author's own, is set against, not
> entangled in the computer traded world that allies itself with the
> neo-liberalism of Windust.
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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