BtZ42 "Progressive knotting into"

[Ian Livingston]

Homage to Herman the great, perhaps, Ish?


On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:01 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >> An answer to the question, "Is this the way out?"
> >>
> >> No.
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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> >
> >
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