[FRIAM] complex cormac

[Stephen Guerin]

Yeah, I also remember a very sfi-ish small piece in Blood Meridian. I'm
traveling now and don't have the book so won't try to butcher a quote from
memory. But my hazy memory is that it had a bit about propagating information
structuring the world...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Breecker [mailto:david at breeckerassociates.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:02 AM
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> Subject: [FRIAM] complex cormac
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> I've always been at a bit of a loss to understand why 
> novelist Cormac McCarthy is in residence at SFI (apart from 
> the fact that he's brilliant and so are a lot of people 
> there, and I'd certainly have him in residence in my office 
> if I could); but reading his Nobel-winning post-apocalyptic 
> "The Road" I came across two lines in as many pages that 
> started to make it more clear:
> 
> "The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns 
> out the light and is gone."
> 
> "Query: how does the never to be differ from what never was?"
> 
> That's enough to make afternoon tea more interesting...
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