Higher argument

[Mike Jing]

Thanks all for replying.


On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 4:45 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, good point.
>  Which leads in an allusion we all know that that might depend on what is
> the claim of claiming.
>
> But, yes, if the echoing of Slothrop is a possible resonance, he went
> freely too and the higher argument came out of that.
> Lew hurried freely as if for cosmic reasons?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Nov 8, 2020, at 4:34 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Don’t forget the text says “as if,” implying not against his own will.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 1:38 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> A cosmological argument; a teleological argument; even that the higher
> argument is deterministic, his scurrying is not of his own free will.
> >> I get a kind of echo of Slothrop here, who scurried from place to place
> under a higher argument than he was aware of.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >> > On Nov 7, 2020, at 10:21 PM, Raphael Saltwood <
> PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > From : Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> >> >
> >> > ________________________________
> >> >
> >> > P233.1-4   As autumn deepened, Lew could be noticed hurrying from
> place to place, as if
> >> >
> >> > increasingly claimed by a higher argument—
> >> >
> >> > tensely vertical,
> >> > favoring narrow black overcoats, slouch hats,
> >> >
> >> > and serviceable boots, a
> >> > trimmed black mustache settled in along his
> >> >
> >> > upper lip.
> >> >
> >> > In what sense is the word "argument" used here?
> >> >
> >> > ——
> >> >
> >> > Not aware of a particular trope it ties into (doesn’t mean there
> isn’t one)
> >> >
> >> > “Argument” may just be a quick catch-all term for an interpretation
> of one’s experience -
> >> >
> >> > The lawyer in court presents an argument, eg.
> >> >
> >> > Life itself presents lower (on Maslow’s pyramid) arguments - “you
> must get food and shelter”
> >> > But his wardrobe shows he has that.
> >> >
> >> > “You must find a place in society” - but his hurry and freedom of
> movement suggests this is not a problem for him.
> >> >
> >> > A higher argument might be “you must seek truth, insight, patterns”
> >> >
> >> > If we posit that the observant Lew has tapped into political truths
> and Cyclomite-induced insights not evident to most, this is the argument he
> engages with, to the extent of finding patterns in the light and darkness
> of London’s streets, and messages in gas.
> >> >
> >> > “Lew could be noticed” - by whom? Nookshaft’s recruiters, probably,
> working with Pythagorean and Tarot-inspired patterns, looking for kindred
> spirits.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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