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

[Ian Livingston]

Sigh. We were children, then, and dreamed that our stretched wide open
imaginations could translate into beliefs and visions others, too, might
experience. That awe, that sense of wonder, is now stuffed into the bloated
purse of cynicism.

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 3:14 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Dec 21, 2018, at 2:58 AM, jbloocher at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On 20 Dec 2018, at 21:19, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/don-delillo-anniversary-apollo/578266/#click=https://t.co/8zTMWIfGUV
> >>
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> >> Sent from my iPhone
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