Re: Cormac Article on Kekulé Problem

[David Morris]

I expect the GR reference is the reason this CM essay was initially posted,
but CM being  P-list fave was an added bonus.

David Morris

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:00 PM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

>
> Eight mails under this thread title and none mentions the famous passage
> from * Gravity's Rainbow*?
>
> Yeah, that's the 'Pynchon-list' in 2017 ...
>
> “Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the
> dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World. But the meanness, the cynicism
> with which this dream is to be used. The Serpent that announces, 'The World
> is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant, eternally-returning,' is to be
> delivered into a system whose only aim is to violate the Cycle. Taking and
> not giving back, demanding that 'productivity' and 'earnings' keep on
> increasing with time, the System removing from the rest of the World these
> vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction showing a
> profit: and not only most of humanity—most of the World, animal, vegetable,
> and mineral, is laid waste in the process. The System may or may not
> understand that it's only buying time. And that time is an artificial
> resource to begin with, of no value to anyone or anything but the System,
> which must sooner or later crash to its death, when its addiction to energy
> has become more than the rest of the World can supply, dragging with it
> innocent souls all along the chain of life. Living inside the System is
> like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide
> . . . though he's amiable enough, keeps cracking jokes back through the
> loudspeaker . . .” (p. 412)
>
>
>
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