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[Joseph Tracy]

> On Jul 8, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
quoting Dwight Eddin’s or commenting on his ideas?
> 
> GR is one long metaxic ping-pong between those poles, a 760-page system of words proving (like Rilke proves)  that no system of words will deliver the Word we think we want. 

Or perhaps GR is asking  whether these are not irreconcilably disconnected poles, renuciation vs embrace, but simply polarities of the same global energy flow, both doors to each other and the whole. The ping pong game becomes a necessary discipline to avoid getting  stuck with a falses sense of self , a false sense of the meaning and comprehensibility of the game. 

 My own feeling is that part of the genius of Pynchon is to leave the reader to sort it out, but only after several rounds of serious internal ping pong. Also he shows how very elegant and poetic ideas can illuminate madness and cruelty. Which implies that just having a beautiful, powerful scientific or poetic vision is not enough to liberate one from theft, abuse, hatred and murder. 


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