BtZ/BtI: Kubrick/Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Shakspeare has a fimilar expreslion in King John : " Beyond the infinite and
boundless reach " Of mercy.

A self-published work of self-described 'philosophy" from 2004. Very
finitely just touching the themes.
Beyond the Infinite: The Ascent to Dionysus is the first fruit of what
Bushashia calls the Post-Scientific Revolution. Bushashia opens with an
attack on scienceas belief in cause and effect, while he puts forth his own
anti-causal world-logic, which declares that the world is music. He seeks a
world-understanding that not only comes to terms with time, but also fully
embraces the becoming nature of actuality. Against both free will and
scientific determinism, Bushashia is a fatalist, yet a fatalist who affirms
the will-to-power. Against both conservatism and liberalism, Bushashia
embarks upon a Dionysian view of life that includes belief in aristocracy.
His book also includes new insights into the sublime and the beautiful, a
spectacular interpretation of European history, and a strong critique of
rationalism. All this is done instructively and with great clarity, making
his work a very pleasant and delectable read.

no "beyond the infinite" in Google N--Gram but infinite declined since the
sixties while infinity has had a rise.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=infinite%2Cinfinity&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cinfinite%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Binfinite%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BInfinite%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cinfinity%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Binfinity%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BInfinity%3B%2Cc0



On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is Pynch known to have any particular relationship to *2001*?
>
> The last section of the movie*t *is called "Jupiter and Beyond the
> Infinite". It comes out five years before *GR. *Hard to imagine any
> scenario whereby Pynchon doesn't see this movie. Thus doesn't *know *his
> title has an overt relationship to the movie chapter.
>
> Reminds me: there's a David Foster Wallace story in *Oblivion *called
> "The Soul Is Not a Smithy," correcting a line from the end of *A Portrait
> of the Artist as a Young Man *in which JJ says that the soul--Dedalus's,
> anyway--is. A smithy.
>
>
>
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