The Man without Qualities

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 16:03:26 CST 2015


Musil sorta brackets technology to go right for the
foundational jugular---again, unless this Ulrich is
not a Musil view spokesman at all.

The math stuff does make me think of AtD all over again.
Only so reimagined (as vision).

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I still must sort out the irony going on, I mean
> he IS a character without qualities---
> can make one think of Slothrop vanishing, I guess---but more
> a character lacking a tradition of the 'human' [qualities] so
> I do not yet know what all to make of his riffs on
>
> math and science BUT my gawd, he links to bad societal shit
> early on...root of it all......
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