"the two perpetually in struggle"

[Dave Monroe]

good/evil, the stars/the bomb ...

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Aug 30, 2015, at 8:18 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I wonder if Pynchon had that one specifically in mind, even.
>>
>> But I prefer to think of it as a linking association ...
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>>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Great associational linkage.
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>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>> 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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