CoL49 - Group Read End of Book

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 20:31:02 UTC 2024


It’s hard to discuss a book with someone who doesn’t want to read what’s on
the page.

On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 4:28 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> JT:  "At one point in her walk along the RR tracks, Oedipa discusses the
> "excluded middle" where she knows "bad shit happens". How does this relate
> to David's premise that the book is about "What is Reality?”?"
>
> Reality is not binary in its choices, its explanations, its mappings.
> Logic, where the excluded middle comes from, does not show reality either...
> "bad shit happens' where it can not be explained....bad shit cannot
> (always) be explained....THIS IS REALITY....


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