Inherited Wind: Merton, Camus, Teilhard, and the Jesuit Advocate for the Devil

[ish mailian]

The use of "the double" and doubling in Against the Day, though
obviously couched in theories of Light and Physics, and so Mathematics
too, while essential to the work, should not dissuade readers from the
generation themes, the Biology, Genetics, and the doubling found in
Nature, on Earth and in the Heavens.

Mind-Bending Science In Thomas Pynchon's Mind-Bending Novel Against
The Day: Part I

http://www.science20.com/adaptive_complexity/mindbending_science_thomas_pynchons_mindbending_novel_against_day_part_i-8804



On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:50 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is lots of Evolution in GR. In fact, it's far more important
> than Physics or Mathematics, Statistics, Psychology and the rest.
>
> The satire of Teilhard de Chardin is but one example of the inherited
> wind blowing through Pynchon's mind as he composes his masterwork.
>
> The soil and the bananas are under the parabola of the scream and
> Noah's Great Rainbow as Alice and I look out tonight on Desolation
> Row.
>
> http://realphysics.blogspot.com/2011/09/inhumanity-of-teilhard-de-chardin.html
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