"the two perpetually in struggle"

[Dave Monroe]

I wonder if Pynchon had that one specifically in mind, even.

But I prefer to think of it as a linking association ...

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great associational linkage.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 30, 2015, at 7:49 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in
>> almost all science. ... The fate of human civilization will depend on
>> whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or
>> a hydrogen bomb."
>>
>> — Sir Bernard Lovell, The Individual and the Universe (1959), 73.
>>
>> http://todayinsci.com/L/Lovell_Bernard/LovellBernard-Quotations.htm
>>
>> Cf./vs. ...
>>
>> ". . . Manichaeans who see two Rockets, good and evil, who speak
>> together in the acred idiolalia of the Primal Twins (some say their
>> names are Enzian and Blicero), of
>> a good Rocket to take us to the Stars, an evil Rocket for the World's
>> suicide, the two perpetually in struggle." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 727)
>>
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=GGPm4I3BbxAC&pg=PA727
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