CoL49 Creeping Horror

[Mark Kohut]

Theoretical abstractionism resonates with me in this way....The world
moving away from the felt organic reality of the human community...
Lewis Mumford, with some circumstantial evidence that TRP read some of him,
tackled this, I think.....and V becoming a non-organic being
adumbrates it in V..maybe?

This interpretative theme, if correct, shows its thematic chops fully,
almost fulsomely, in ATD I say.

On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 1:35 PM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> Mark posted:"Sure he was against industrial capitalism. So are we. Didn't
> it lead, inevitably, to Marxism? Underneath, both are part of the same
> creeping horror"
>
> > What is the underlying truth of both of them? A theoretical
> abstractionism? ...is that the creeping horror?Here we have Blake's
> contraries blending into synthesis. One ideology in antithesis of the other
> synthesizing into a creeping horror humanity continues to perpetuate
> through war, consumption, externalities. All our idealism oozing into
> degradation and corruption.Just a thought.In solidarity,James
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