M & D Ewers obs:

[Mark Kohut]

> René Descartes viewed "the cosmos as a great time machine
> > operating according to fixed laws, a watch created and wound up by the
> > great watchmaker."[6]  **

I don't want to put Descartes before the horse (groan) but elsewhere
in Pynchon, overtly in Against the Day and maybe covertly in V., TRP
throws some scorn on Cartesian 'rationalism".....
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