GR translation: No count on any other levels

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the reply, Mark.


On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 5:42 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The philosophical problem of solipsism, say philosophers, is IF only you,
> your mind exists,
> where do other things in your mind come from? Pynchon speaks of a
> structure of the mind---
> a structure--see "like an Ark" as he ends this extended comparison--which
> must have levels/floors/stories, etc.---
> where you, solipsist, were all alone on one level......No count, nothing
> to count, nothing on any other level...
> BUT there are things to count, one by one, on those other levels.
> Crutchfield *the only..*.one Indian who ever fought him, one President,
> one assassin, etc.....one fight, one victory, one loss......Pynchon,
> brilliant as always, while denying archetypal earlier
> writes out archetypal like a champ.....(part of the reason I read the faro
> dealer as archetypal)
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 6:49 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V.67.36-39, P69.16-20   True. One of each of everything. You had thought
>> of
>> solipsism, and imagined the structure to be populated—on your level—by
>> only, terribly, one. No count on any other levels. But it proves to be not
>> quite that lonely. Sparse, yes, but a good deal better than solitary.
>>
>> What does "No count" mean here?
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