GR, domination and freedom

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I just finished that book not too long ago.

I was overthinking it for a sec but I think if you just take superaddition
at its literal meaning it makes sense. Pynchon loves writing about
palimsests, and the military industrial complex is ever-changing itself to
rewrite the planet over and over again. As it shapeshifts its needs change
thus requiring new components to continually add on to itself; not unlike
the novel itself.

I may be missing something, some reference or other. I like the question
though, I hope someone smarter than me will have something more interesting
to say about it.
On Jul 18, 2014 6:59 AM, "Elisabeth Romberg" <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:

> Anyone else reading or have read the book by Herman and Weisenburger? Or
> might be able to help anyway?
>
> There is a sentence on page 13 that I have difficulties following (near
> the top):
>
> "Certainly the ceaseless, ever-morphing needs of a corporatized
> military-industrial management and production regime also shadow this great
> novel from beginning to end - an alternate mimetic reason for the rhetoric
> of superaddition"
>
> It is the second half of the sentence I don't understand the meaning of.
> In particular the word superaddition and what it means in the context of
> the sentence.
>
>
> Elisabeth
>
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