Crying of Lot 49, the Group Read

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sat May 11 11:41:10 UTC 2024


"imaginary numbers", of course, not imaginative numbers, LOL....

On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 6:57 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> p. 15 "She had never known numbers to run so high. It seemed unnatural".
>
> I think it was Ruth Benedict (or one early anthropologist) who talked of
> natural "organic' communities whose math, whose counting,  went like this:
>
>  One, Two, Many...
>
> I think it has been shown that Pynchon has deep thematic feelings about
> natural.  About organic communities---see all his interpreted history of
> the origins of European towns and cities in *Against the Day....*
>
> Notice how imaginative numbers in *Against the Day* are.....bad
> things....unnatural
> by definition......
>
> Here is some of that in embryo....a bit of his fuller world vision in
> embryo....I suggest.
>


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