Before the lines were drawn

[Laura Kelber]

Nice connection, jody. There's a thread starting in V. and COL49, but fully
taking root in GR, concerning how we got to this point: where/when/how did
"They" take control? But these wistful what-if strands you cite seem to be
more a product of late (old) Pynchon. Off-hand I can't recall any what-ifs
in GR, other than, maybe, the Kirghiz light sequence. But that concerns
what was vanquished, rather than what could have been.

Laura

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:55 PM, jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Don't have either text at hand, but thinking, on the eve of this 4th of
> July, about the descriptions of Mason & Dixon's perception of America at
> first blush- the deer, innocently blinking from the banks- the whole
> amazing unspoiled vastness of pre-american America,,,
>
> and the wistful descriptions in Bleeding Edge-  the undefined potential of
> The Net before it fell prey to all that it has become since its first early
> connections- like the glistening "nerve lines" of the ice-coated tree just
> outside the comfy drawing room of Advent Philadelphia- the Rev'd revving up
> to his tale...
>
> Is it "too late" ? Could it ever have been any different? Was it all
> inevitable? Do parallel lines intersect?  Que sera....
>
> Happy secular holiday,  jody
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