The bleeding continues....Maxine's friend

[Mark Kohut]

Just considering the Westlake quote again: "New York as the suspect" 

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> On Sep 19, 2018, at 10:17 AM, jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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