CoL49 group reading ch4 - winding up

Sat Jun 22 14:02:38 UTC 2024

And not Stephen Jay Gould, another eminent scientist of the times who had a
different mag as his regular publisher of pieces..

I want to CONGRATULATE again, Michael and all of us. I have read too much
stuff on Pynchon and even just this novella and
IN NOTHING I'VE READ has any scholar explored that* Scientific
American *seemingly
thrown-away line...LOOK what it reveals!

And the scholars who should have known that Pynchon willfully used science
in his books because as he said in an early letter, unless I am making shit
up again, that the modern novelist trying to capture/illumine/ see the
world whole MUST know and use science because it pervades
our modern world. The Tower is everywhere.....

Michael and JK, I think this great stuff could be a short, "Just the Facts,
Ma'am" piece in Orbit or somewhere else.

On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 8:58 AM J K Van Nort <jkvannort at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Strangely enough, Jay Gould is listed as a contributing writer for the
> magazine according to Wikipedia.
>
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> On Saturday, June 22, 2024, 07:49, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> *Scientific American* at this time was at a peak of its new life best
> magazine self; a new golden age---ii was started in 1848--because of
> its owner and publisher:
> Education and career[edit
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerard_Piel&action=edit&section=1>
> ]
>
> Piel graduated from Harvard University
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University>, magna cum laude, with
> a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1937. He was the science editor of Life
> Magazine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Magazine> from 1939 to 1945.
> In 1946 and 1947, he worked at the Henry Kaiser Company
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Aluminum> as assistant to the
> president. In 1948, in association with two colleagues, he launched a new
> version of Scientific American
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American#History>, to promote
> science literacy for the general public in the postwar era. In January 1957
> Piel hired the then unknown Martin Gardner
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gardner> to write the Mathematical
> Games column <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Games_(column)>,
> a feature that became one of the most popular parts of the magazine, lasted
> for 25 years, and produced almost 300 columns.
>
> Piel was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences> and
> the American Philosophical Society
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society>.[3]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Piel#cite_note-3>[4]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Piel#cite_note-4> He held a number
> of honorary degrees and awards, including the UNESCO
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO> Kalinga Prize
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinga_Prize> in 1962.[5]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Piel#cite_note-5>
> Global policy[edit
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerard_Piel&action=edit&section=2>
> ]
>
> He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for
> drafting a world constitution
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_constitution>.[6]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Piel#cite_note-6>[7]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Piel#cite_note-7> As a result, for
> the first time in human history, a World Constitutional Convention
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Constitutional_Convention>convened
> to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_for_the_Federation_of_Earth>.
> [8] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Piel#cite_note-8>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 7:07 AM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
> Also did you get that from the Scientific American archive? I’ve been
> updating the CoL49 Pynchon Wiki, and this should be an entry.
>
> Full disclosure to all, I’ve been creating a document of all our group
> reading posts. My goal is to make it part of the Pynchon Wiki as other
> group reads of MD and GR.
>
> In solidarity,
> James
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
>
>
> On Saturday, June 22, 2024, 06:41, J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, I have the next two weeks. I’ll post tomorrow.
>
> By the way Michael, great research on Scientific American. What doesn’t
> Pynchon read!?! The “Architecture in Transition” article summary describes
> San Narciso too closely not to be a source.
>
>
> In solidarity,
> James
>
>
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>
>
> On Friday, June 21, 2024, 22:35, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It’s been an interesting week, but we’re probably all ready to move forward
>
> Are the chapters getting longer?
>
> Ch 1 - p6 (11)
> Ch 2 - p17 (16)
> Ch 3 - p33 (28)
> Ch 4 - p61 (14)
> Ch 5 - p75 (34)
> Ch 6 - p109 (28)
>
> If I have any more insights or doo-dads before midnight, I’ll post them (-;
>
>
> It’s JK up next, right?
>
> *CHAPTER 5:
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> *>* > 6/23:  a101-112; b80-90  James V
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> *>* > 6/30:  a113-125; b91-101  James V
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> *>* > 7/7:  a126-138; b102-112  Mark
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> *>* > 7/14:  a139-146; b113-119  David
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> *>* > CHAPTER 6:
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> *>* > 7/21:  a147-157; b120-30  Michael
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> *>* > 7/28:  a158-168; b131-141  Joseph
> *>* >*
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