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[ish mailian]

So does Pynchon satirize the extreme scientist, and the extreme priest
with radical empiricism, by making their worlds as James describes
Experience in his essays Radical Empiricism,  in that book or whatever
it is?

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:39 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ish (and Kai) yes. RWE is all over Against the Day, I suggest, or he is all inside the day of it. I think as he does to about everything and everyone, TRP
> satirizes (as well as embraces ambiguously) RWE's vatic stance.
>
> Anyone else associate the Balloon with the Oversoul?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Over-Soul
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:06 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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>>
>> Maia
>>
>> Illusion works impenetrable,
>> Weaving webs innumerable,
>> Her gay pictures never fail,
>> Crowds each on other, veil on veil,
>> Charmer who will be believed
>> By Man who thirsts to be deceived ...
>>
>>
>> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328346080_The_Influence_of_Hinduism_on_the_Writings_of_Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
>> https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAD1982.0001.001/1:9.2.11?rgn=div3;view=fulltext
>>
>> + ... his Hinduism ... +
>>
>>
>> Am 15.01.20 um 17:17 schrieb ish mailian:
>> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 6:11 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> either mine or yours. We have explored the meanings
>> >> in Pynchon.
>> > I've cut the rest of your post here, Mark.
>> > As you well know, quite few have written about P and William James and
>> > the hook there is RW Emerson, read from in VL.
>> > I think there is still more there to explore, including the school of
>> > American Pragamatism, but it is RWE, that to this reader, is most
>> > significant. This because of his Nature, his Physics, his Hinduism.
>> >
>> > Here is a great Introduction to the depth and breadth of RWE:
>> >
>> > Still Ahead of His Time
>> > By Frederick Turner
>> > SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
>> > MAY 2003
>> >
>> > https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/still-ahead-of-his-time-82186396/
>> > --
>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> > .
>> >
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