Easy "convenient" quote

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 15:48:06 UTC 2020


James concludes that experience is full of connections and that these
connections are part of what is actually experienced:

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:38 AM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, you know  comedies and tragedies and satires, and that last one,
> the satire, is what you are pointing to here, Mark, I find great
> readings from the satire side, and, like, I love The Simpsons, but
> here I am thinking that  even James is not Radical Enough in his
> Radical Empericism, but Emerson, who, kinda like The Pynchons, begins
> at Church and has the quirkiness, the rugged Ruggles mindedness to,
> like Whitman, with contradictions of the self, in the Simpsons
> episode,  follow Yogi Berra and the Beatles to India, where, the Hindu
> texts are, and in terms of cause and effect, where Within You Without
> You ...& Love with our Love ....
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:56 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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> >> >> >
> >> >>
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