CoL49 Current Events
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Jun 17 19:00:08 UTC 2024
I would not be surprised if Pynchon loves---and believed. believes---some
highest kinds
of 'theories", really unproveable patterns in history.....The Kondratieff
Wave....the rise and fall
of Rome reasons.....the rise and fall of civilizations.....Meanings of The
Big Band and the arguments
against.....some math speculations---see ATD---I have no idea of------I do
think I know that in AtD
he clearly thinks FOR THE FICTION imaginary numbers are bad shit......by
their name and meaning they
keep us from the real world......(I bet he's read Wittgenstein on
mathamatics which I couldn't).....
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 2:52 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I really would not be completely surprised if Pynchon really does believe
> some seriously whack conspiracies… but if so, his lunacy is savant level
> with a Jewish skeptic always harping over his shoulder.
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 1:37 PM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
> > My point about current events around the time Pynchon writes a particular
> > book has to do with that event's impact on his thinking. After working
> for
> > Boeing, he must have grasped the MIC's increasing power, acknowledged by
> > Eisenhower, confronted by JFK, and aligned with LBJ. Kubrick released Dr.
> > Strangelove in January of 1964, so these ideas are around and part of the
> > zeitgeist.
> >
> > In solidarity,
> > James
> >
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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