Conjugate point - is a math thing?

[David Morris]

This sentence was intended to flip perspectives.  Normally “spill” (as in
messy) would be associated with Anarchy.  But P proposes that anarchists
are seeking a point in contrast to the spill.  A sweet spot.  And he starts
out by saying this defies common sense.

David Morris

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:46 PM Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com>
wrote:

> certain hidden geometries of
> >>>> History,
> >>>> which must include, somewhere, at least at a single point, a safe
> >>>> conjugate
> >>>> to all the spill of accursed meridians, passing daily, desolate, one
> >>>> upon
> >>>> the next.
>
>
> Pynchon put “point” and “conjugate” in same

[.…]
> Simplistic breakdown: we are considering a spot where anarchists can hang
> out and live without capitalism, hierarchy, coercion and all that buzzkill
> alpha male excrescence...
>
> Such a spot would be the opposite of all the landmark lines circumscribing
> our capitalistic daily experience (the spill would be the messy way that
> “getting and spending we lay waste our powers”)
>
> (“spill” could also be an inter textual reference to all the blood spilled
> in _Blood Meridian_ speaking of meridians, although I can’t prove author
> intent from the text)
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