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

[Robert Mahnke]

This is a great profile of Parfit by Larissa MacFarquhar, hopefully not
behind a paywall:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/05/how-to-be-good


On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:58 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Weird, I was reading Parfit yesterday after spending the rest of my
> life never having heard of him. Somehow I must have happened on his
> death elsewhere on the web. He formulated this philosophical problem
> called The Repugnant Conclusion which is both interesting and
> awesomely named:
> https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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/
> >
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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