BtZ42 "Progressive knotting into"

[ish mailian]

Don't forget the scientific, so often blended with the mystical in GR.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Depends what you call progress, really, yes?
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> I think it's possible to get all mystical about this image Pynchon uses, or
> all political. It's also possible to shade each into each.
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> BTW--my computer is on the fritz. Can't get on it much or for long. I do
> sincerely apologize for going absent. I need to save up for a new machine.
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:50 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> An answer to the question, "Is this the way out?"
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>> No.
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>> And what they are progressively knotted into (if you will allow that
>> "progressive" here connotes a step by step, increasing intensity and
>> depth) is the cities of the poor, where the chances of light and
>> salvation diminish to absolute zero, for the poor fellows. Not very
>> progressive after all. Is it?
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>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > We often allude to this as 'going deeper' . Here mostly
>> > means deeper into the rotten city and closer to death.
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