BEg2 chapter 7 refreshing reactions to verbiage therein

[Michael Bailey]

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“They don’t do metaphysical,” Vyrva flashing Maxine a smile falling
noticeably short of fond amusement. She must see a lot of this.


a) I do not get why this would peeve Vyrva. Most often little
not-gettin-this thingies will get teased and enlightened in a Pynchon joint…

b) what strikes me first is probably wrong, but…not
doing metaphysical is the primary credo of Logical Postivism, right?
A-and as the loving spouse suffering the dreaded “3rd person in the
marriage” in this case Justin, her ambitions for the partnership of Justin
and herself - Jurva? Vyrstin? to use the portmanteau sobriquets so popular
in that time frame…
Ladies first?
Vyrstin, then, being an entity deprived of energy by the entity Lucstin or
Justas -

Let me bring this in for an ungainly landing: maybe logical positivism,
described with unsympathetic reductionism, is “a philosophy that applies
unsympathetic reductionism to the sort of romantic notions that a marriage
is built on, but stokes achievement/competition ethos underlying “bromance”
?”




“…celestial pastry exercise known as a Ponzi scheme”
Ah! Pie in the Sky. (Which is also the title of a wonderful British
Detective show featuring an extremely portly gentleman who manages to be a
chef and a detective, if you like this sort of thing you will love Pie in
the Sky)

This is a Pynchonism. Who else gives this kind of fun? Not enough writers!
It’s like in AtD where I think Noseworth speaks “from a certain equine
altitude.”