NP but P's Head Doctor ( more a whole Being doc)

[Mark Kohut]

So, since a fever unconcentrates the mind wonderfully, I felt that only
fragments might enter my mind yesterday.

So, I had a copy of Heraclitus' Fragments, he of the famous impossible
two-step in the river fragment, and opened it. Penguin Classics edition
2001. Guess who did the introduction?

Pynchon's "shrink" [No, I don't mean this literally but it might be the
case, we sometimes think?]
James Hillman.

Hillman sez, since archetypal modes of thought transcend time and place,
Heraclitus is 'strikingly postmodern"!

Well, since P contains 'everything' it shouldn't surprise me that there are
thematic
fragments of P in Heraclitus as Hillman reads him. Seems he was the first
to think sleep
taught us: "dreaming is the flickering activity of the mind participating
in the world's imagination."
That Hillman, no wonder P likes him.

The fire is Heraclitus' metaphor for the constant flow, flux, and eternal
change of the world as we know it. "usual thinkers try to grasp the flow
by..... overprecise and reductive explanations" "Whereas the thinker [the
true prophet] who is on track speaks in signs, much like gestures, hints
and metaphors that neither reveal nor conceal. These signs allow for many
meanings with ambiguous and suggestive possibilities".

Sound like any other great narrative writer(s) you know?
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