GR translation: the latest name for that is Modern Analysis

[Mark Kohut]

Remember the couple searing joke jabs--joke with a purpose--that  TRP has
struck at Descartes with?
Descartes, the European--and there were forefathers--- who philosophically
reified narcissistic rationalization.....Rationalization in TRP's fave---
Weber, ---which "singled up all lines" all the way to the Chicago slaughter
houses IN ATD, those cows were forced up one by prodding one --with a
Holocaust-adjacent
allusion in there, as there are  IN GR...

America, the new-found land, as naturally fertile as de Tocquelville writes
in Volume 1 of his masterpiece; America which
could have returned the West to "savage innocences" ,,,America --a gift
from the heavens which instead led to "Subsequent Sin, which is even harder
to atone for...."

PS Addendum: new thought: Maybe Lew Basnight's guilt-carried sin is NOT
original sin as we and many have said but is instead Subsequent Sin!!??

On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 9:26 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OK, so it's inherently ambiguous, and that's fine as far as the translation
> is concerned. Thanks, Mike.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2026 at 4:16 AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Now there's a challenging question. Here's a whole reddit thread on it
> >
> >
> https://www.reddit.com/r/ThomasPynchon/comments/qp29jd/the_latest_name_for_that_is_modern_analysis/
> > .
> >
> > The reference to the Linnaen system makes most sense to me - the
> > original sin being the attempt to categorise everything. In line with
> > Brigadier Pudding's attempt to pin down the futre of European politics.
> >
> > But there's also a mathematical Modern Analysis which someone more
> > knowledgeable might make a link to the matter at hand.
> >
> > On 01/01/2026 17:08, Mike Jing wrote:
> >
> > > V722.22-30, P736.38-737.5   “America was the edge of the World. A
> message
> > > for Europe, continent-sized, inescapable. Europe had found the site for
> > its
> > > Kingdom of Death, that special Death the West had invented. Savages had
> > > their waste regions, Kalaharis, lakes so misty they could not see the
> > other
> > > side. But Europe had gone deeper—into obsession, addiction, away from
> all
> > > the savage innocences. America was a gift from the invisible powers, a
> > way
> > > of returning. But Europe refused it. It wasn’t Europe’s Original
> Sin—the
> > > latest name for that is Modern Analysis—but it happens that Subsequent
> > Sin
> > > is harder to atone for.
> > >
> > > What does "Modern Analysis" refer to here exactly?
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> >
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