BEg2 chapter 7 refreshing reactions to verbiage therein

[Mark Kohut]

The "they don't do metaphysical" remark comes after we learn......"it's
code....Justin a bit bewildered [about why it is so hard to understand, I
suggest]....."hypermutated out of VRML"...[Virtual Reality
Modeling Language]......'is all it is".....

Algorithms. Math or- logic as math. Or logic as a step-by-step recipe as
algorithms (and coding) is sometimes analogized to. That reduction of
reality that Pynchon eviscerates all through his fiction, most particularly
in Against the Day. And in this case those coders have no thoughts about
reality versus virtual, no metaphysical thoughts about their Being; they
are treated equally by these young techies, no anxiety or confusion in
action....

On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 2:41 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Aspirational subject line
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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.
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> 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…
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> 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 -
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> 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”
> ?”
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> “…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)
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> 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.”
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