Re: Clicking into the abyss: Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge

[rich]

'Maxine goes to the Archer for answers but also for sanctuary.Out there (or
rather in there) she converses with an avatar, who claims to be on a
mission to the edge of the universe, but who is also pissed off about the
commercialization overtaking the space:

All these know-nothings coming in, putting in, it’s as bad as the surface
Web. They drive you deeper, into the deep unlighted.  Beyond anyplace
they’d be comfortable.  And that’s where the origin is. The way a powerful
telescope will bring you further out in physical space, closer to the
moment of the big bang, so here, going deeper, you approach the border
country, the edge of the un-navigable, the region of no information.'

true enough but how do you ensure such purity of anything without becoming
the gelded joyless hardon priesthood with all the secrets who won't share
or only with the chosen select. or the bitter boring prophet lamenting when
they were into what now everyone is into? i.e. how do you avoid becoming an
elitist asshole?


rich

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

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