inconvenience

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 14:56:47 UTC 2020


Ish---

What a great question which I i am not learned nor smart enough, with this
quick draw response, to
tackle verbally.

And although I may still not be either soon, I am thinking about it and
might try to be wrong with a patina.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:32 AM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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/
> >> > --
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