more associative 'thinking'--or lack of it. Probably not archivable.

[Mark Kohut]

An important philosopher has just died. Derek Parfit. Tributes are occurring
and passages from his books are being shared on social media.

Here is one in a tweet (probably unreadable in the archives and by some for
that reason
and because it is a picture of a page not electronic bits of text.)

But if you read it, see if you AT ALL associate that middle paragraph and
the glass tube experience related to egoistic self-awareness, with the
'grace' Lew
feels on the other side of the blast in Against the Day.

Or even to the egoistic transformation of Cyprian as expressed therein.

This is not even close to a suggestion that Pynchon knew this guy's work AT
ALL,
just that an artist like him and a genius like Parfit might have a human
insight like this
 and both metaphorically expressed in similar ways (a little).

http://dailynous.com/2017/01/02/derek-parfit-1942-2017/
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