BtZ42 that arrow again...

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As satire, GR's target is the Western World, the Western Mind Europe
and America.  Some have called GR a jeremiad. As satire or
lamentation, GR targets all categories of official culture, including
science.

The concurrent affirmation of love and freedom , of middles, of
Nature, of the Western Engineer and Scientist, of science and
mathematics (for example, Murphy's Law and Godel's Theorem) is there
too. Obviously.



On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> ( I predict this post will bring out commentary galore, maybe)
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>  A few Plisters have focussed on P's attitude(s) to technology/technics/science, how ' agin it' in general P is. One lister--we know who you are, Monte--has made the bestest case for the concurrent " love" -and positive visions of technics, when science is understood in its most universal way-- that is also in P's work.
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> It has mostly convinced me at least,and an arrow ( even if a Zen arrow) is a piece of "aggressive "technology---but not just that, of course---with a positive use here in section five.
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> I offer the suggestion that an arrow is a human-sized example of technics--unlike the Rocket---and shows a half-latent (in GR )vision that small is beautiful, that the human size is, well, the "human" we have lost as History
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> Took its too--high step on the History is a Step-function aphorism of Pynchon.
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