Epstein Secrets

dington, William Empson, C. G. Jung, Bertrand Russell, William Butler Yeats, John McHale, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Ihab Hassan, T. E. Hulme, Simone Weil, Samuel Beckett, David Pears, Main Robbe-Grillet, Victor Gioscia, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Norman 0. Brown, William Shakespeare, E. E. Cummings, Paul Valery, Ezra Pou

DEDICATION THESE WORDS DO not belong to the author anymore than they belong to the people quoted in the book: Norbert Wiener, Karl Lashley, George Kubler, J. Z. Young, John Lilly, Marshall McLuhan, Stewart Brand, Heinz von Foerster, Edward T. Hall, Alfred North Whitehead,

2. ficeTransfer physical to language" A A I I. Stevens, ficeEsthetique Du MalA op. cit., p. 313. aceHe disposes the world in categories.fi A A 12. Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable, in Three Novels by Samuel Beckett (New York: Grove Press, 1955), p. 326. ficeThereamis no getting . . . keep in mind" A A 13. Becke

ling of Mind Computers and Intelligence (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1968), p. 255. for any formal system . . . within the system. A A 35. Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1967), p. 199. kelt is important . . . the imposed disturbance)* A A 36. Carlos Castenedas, The Teach

at and layout. Each page contains a single paragraph comprised partly of quotes from works by figures from Marshall McLuhan to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Samuel Beckett and E. E. Cummings, that is disconnected from its predecessor. A front-page review in the San Francisco Review of Books stated: In short, sharp str

hird investigates the limits of words as tools for understanding. When Heinz von Foerster, an architect of cybernetics, along with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, and John von Neumann, reviewed the trilogy in 1973, he commented: Brockman takes the mystery of language and puts it right back into its own myste