"the two perpetually in struggle"

[Mark Kohut]

One does ask the question once one reads it. I can more easily imagine TRP reading Lovell's book than many others. 

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> On Aug 30, 2015, at 8:18 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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