NP (much) but HOPSCOTCH

[Mark Kohut]

Remember those jabs at Descartes and Cartesianism TRP sprinkles within his
oeuvre?

after a funny riff on Cartesianism which starts with extrapolation---[which
he elsewhere comments on
in a GR way--"Extrapolation. What a concept!"]---from Descartes' famous
line, which is repeated but segued from with "..in any case he was the one
who knew that he was really thinking, eh, Cartesius, you old fuck"..

That extrapolation remark fits into another terrif theme of HOPSCOTCH.
Words, especially abstractions hide, lie about, reality. Real life is
phenomenological and actual experience.
It's been said before but not like this, so to allude and exemplify via
THIS novel.

"Don't spare us any details", said Oliveira.
"Oh, a general idea is enough," said Gregorovius.
"There is no such thing as a general idea," Oliveira said.

Gregorovius as word/name always reminds me of you know who as word/name.
The plural of, all those arms, so to have mental pun fun.


update: further along I have come to think Cortazar believes Descartes but
in this way: he, thru character(s), laughs with the obviousness of his
famous Method. Somewhere the belief that to live, one doesn't need to even
think Descartes' line.....










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