NP: Don DeLillo on the Anniversary of Apollo and Earthrise - The Atlantic

[Mark Kohut]

I also read it as a full lyrical expression of Wittgenstein's famous line: "The world is all that is the case. "That flat statement is positivism, however, not poetry. 

Filling his consciousness, DeLillo stresses. A kind of secular omniscient perspective, so to speak.

As if he were a Chum of Chance looking out--down--from the balloon's living orbit. 



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> On Dec 21, 2018, at 2:58 AM, jbloocher at gmail.com wrote:
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> Thanks Mark. I’d agree. I can’t imagine much surpasses this in speaking of that view. I have often wondered what really happens to our tiny human minds when encountering a view such as this, ‘in reality’. It’s odd to know we never will.
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>> On 20 Dec 2018, at 21:19, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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