Time & Against the Day

[rich]

informative article. I'm still a bit baffled by the notion of the 'self',
and inherent permanence/innate value:  *The underlying theme of Against the
Day—that self and time are all the only “real” things in an imaginary
world...*
*the novel is Pynchon’s plea for his readers to acknowledge what he sees as
the only reality left in a modern era of uncertainty and change—that things
change and disappear, but time and the self remain.*

if we include ourselves in that category which we know not to be
permanent--our selves are ever-changing no? then how can we claim for the
'other selves'?
rich

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remembered.
> That I didn't see how you could be right.
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Remember my going on in the first AtD read about offstage-but-central
> > Einstein and relativity -- the trains and mirrors and light and
> > tatzelwurmholes? That for all the woo at the turn of the 20th century
> (and
> > in AtD) about time as the fourth dimension and Wellsian time machines,
> > relativity actually slammed the door against that, and Pynchon knew it
> very
> > well?
> >
> > Just sayin :-)
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://pippablog.com/against-the-day-pynchons-journey-into-the-real/
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >
> >
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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