NP but Cortazar. Hopscotch and the anti-binary--re the law of the excluded middle

[Mark Kohut]

Missed setting this down: "Rebellion, conformity, anguish, earthly
sustenance, all the dichotomies:
(with some semi-surreal examples)......

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> One direction for reading Hopscotch---there are, if you are not aware,
> two major ways to read the novel, all the linearly-numbered chapters.
>
> One way, the second given, is to start with Chap 73 and follow the
> numbering
> at the end of every chapter to the next chapter to read.  So, already,
> right?
>
> Chap 73: "The very fact that one asks oneself about the possible choice
> vitiates and muddies up what can be chosen. *Que si, quo no, que
> en esta esta *
> *.....*it would seem that a choice cannot be dialectical, that the fact
> of bringing it
> up impoverishes it, that is to say, falsifies it, that is to say,
> transforms it into
> something else. How many eons between the Yin and the Yang? [love this
> line--MK]
> How many, perhaps, between yes and no? Everything is writing, that is to
> say, a fable.
>
>
>
> This is going to be a VERY INTERESTING NOVEL to me, I think.
>
>
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