BtZ42 p. 92. 'Why?"

[Mark Kohut]

Rumination has happened regarding this scene. Why is it there?
I want to argue that TRP created this as a thematic way of
showing the dependency between the two.

Pointsman *needs  *Roger. Pointsman, the pure scientist, works
in a societal void without a statistician like Mexico. Mexico functions
as the helper, the translator, so to speak of the effect, the meanings of
Pointsman's
narrownesses; of Pointsman's attempt at totalization of science.

Mexico is so carefully presented as a guy who wants to believe that
the materialistic explanations of science are NOT ALL there is---that the
World is
not all that is the Case---even though he has had no transcendent(al)
experiences.

Mexico is us, in context. Mexico is American pragmatism, pragmatism as the
effects
of science in action in the world.



On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> "A bit uneasy there, Mexico? 'Why do you need me?"
> "I don't know. But I do."
> *"You're *obsessed."
>
> ........"watching the tide three full times leave behind its sterile film
> of ice. "Help me"
>
>
> Pynchon shows Pointsman as 'trapped' as any of them---and aware that he
> is.
>
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