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

[Monte Davis]

Good question.

VERY good question.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:33 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> '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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>> http://www.tribes.org/web/2014/01/21/carl-watson-reviews-thomas-pynchons-bleeding-edge/
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
>
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