The bleeding continues....Maxine's friend

[jody2.718]

Not Heidi. I was thinking of:

  "Where are you physically?"  (p.406)

and,

  "I'll be at the place. I can't guarantee an erection."  (p.407)

Later, after Maxine finds Windust not only soft but inanimate, she has an Oedipa-like moment, when she realizes that the person she thought she was conversing with was already dead:

   "So who was she talking to, back there in the DeepArcher oasis?   If Windust, judging by the smell, was already long dead by then,
    it gives her a couple of problematic choices- either he was speaking to her from the other side or it was an imposter and the link could
    have been embedded by anybody, not necessarily a well-wisher, spooks, Gabriel Ice... Some random twelve-year old in California.
   Why believe in any of it."   [or as Trump might say, "some fat guy on a couch"- and don't think They haven't read and taken notes on BE]

Many levels of indeterminism here. The Indeterminate soft/hard-on as a symbol for the more encompassing blend of dead and alive. Our hero, me thinks, resists the temptation to foresake the reality of her instincts for a quantum-like indeterminism- an un-excluded middle ground- longed for by Oedipa. "So who was she talking to...?" might be the wrong question. But before she can answer, her train of thought is interrupted by a phone call reminding her that her children could be at stake.

Nevertheless, the bleeding continues. Quantum computing is becoming more real every day, and CRISPR is already here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend

jody

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