Not so much a concordance as a gathering of key statements on central themes.
Neon: “so that not only your whole life but every single humanly conceivable way to describe and account for that life has time to flash like neon shaped into those connected cursive letters […]” [179, footnote]; “this little photo’s guy a year ahead of him in school with the seemingly almost neon aura around him all the time of scholastic and athletic excellence and popularity and success […]” [180] [Note: it comes to mind that there a neon sign belonging to a podiatrist’s clinic in The Pale King. See Pale King pp.165.]
Death: “it gets a lot more interesting when I get to the part where I kill myself and discover what happens immediately after a person dies” [143]; “dead or not, Dr. Gustafson knew more about all this than I” [153]; “after we’d both died and were outside linear time and in the process of dramatic change” [163]; “I actually convinced myself that the tongues’ babble was real language and somehow less false than plain English”; “it’s not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die by the way” [166]; “In logical terms, something expressed in words will still have the same ‘cardinality’ but no longer the same ‘ordinality.’ All the different words are still there, in other words, but it’s no longer a question of which comes first.” [167]; “A lot of history’s great logicians have ended up killing themselves” [167]; “the reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all” [180];
Time: “outside of the logical sequential clock time we all live by” [151]; “words and chronological time creat all these total misunderstandings of what’s really going on” [151]; “if I’m saying words that words and sequential time have nothing to do with it you’re wondering why we’re sitting here in this car using words and taking up you’re increasingly precious time” [152]; “how clumsy and laborious it seems to convey the smallest thing. How much time would you even say has passed” [153]; “all the English that’s been expended on just my head’s partial contents in the tiny interval bewteen then and now” [153]; “that would take too much time to relate in detail” [158]; “the dream takes place in dream time as opposed to waking chronological time”; “the speed with which my whole life blew by like that” [161]; || “the sheer amount of time Dr. Gustafson spent touching and smoothing his mustache” [162]; “after we’d both died and were outside linear time and in the process of dramatic change” [163]; “In logical terms, something expressed in words will still have the same ‘cardinality’ but no longer the same ‘ordinality.’ All the different words are still there, in other words, but it’s no longer a question of which comes first.” [167]; “This occurred at 9:17 PM on August 19, 1991, if you want to know the fixed time precisely.” [173]; “it was intensely mental and would take an enormous amount of time to put into words” [174]; “if it was going to hurt I wanted it instant” [176]; “instant” [177]; “because what if afterward now each moment itself is an infinite sea or span or passage of time which to express it or convey it, and you don’t even need any organized English” [178]; “What if no time passed at all?*” [179] (w/ footnote discussing past, present and future in terms of a speeding automobile);
Logic: “he thought he’d caught me in some kind of logical contradiction” [146]; “there was a basic logical paradox I called the ‘fraudulence paradox'” [147]; “aren’t I sort of logically contradicting myself right at the start” [152]; “or, in logical terms, that their domans were exhaustive and mutually exlusive” (formula here) [164]; “‘validity’ (which happens also to be a term from formal logic)” [164]; “In logical terms, something expressed in words will still have the same ‘cardinality’ but no longer the same ‘ordinality.’ All the different words are still there, in other words, but it’s no longer a question of which comes first.” [167]; “A lot of history’s great logicians have ended up killing themselves” [167]; “The German logician Kant” [173];
Language (words): “the realization didn’t hit me in words” (also around here statements about putting things clumsily, “a long, rushing, clumsy way,” etc., and again on pp. 150) [148]; “just try and put a few seconds’ silences’ flood of thoughts into words.” [150]; “one word after another word English we all communicate with each other with” [151]; “words and chronological time creat all these total misunderstandings of what’s really going on […] and yet at the same time English is all we have to understand it” [151]; “if I’m saying words that words and sequential time have nothing to do with it you’re wondering why we’re sitting here in this car using words and taking up you’re increasingly precious time” [152]; “how clumsy and laborious it seems to convey the smallest thing. How much time would you even say has passed” [153]; “all the English that’s been expended on just my head’s partial contents in the tiny interval bewteen then and now” [153]; “I actually convinced myself that the tongues’ babble was real language and somehow less false than plain English”; “it’s not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die by the way” [166]; “In logical terms, something expressed in words will still have the same ‘cardinality’ but no longer the same ‘ordinality.’ All the different words are still there, in other words, but it’s no longer a question of which comes first” [167]; “it was intensely mental and would take an enormous amount of time to put into words” [174]; “as a verbal construction I know that’s a cliche” [175]; graffiti you can’t even read [176]; “because what if afterward now each moment itself is an infinite sea or span or passage of time which to express it or convey it, and you don’t even need any organized English” [178]; “it’s not English anymore, it’s not getting squeezed through any hole” [179]; “not another word” [181].
Other words/ themes (to look into potentially): “flash”, “paradox”, “keyhole”, “insect”, the various women’s names, cliche (Neon makes some of the same points about cliche that Infinite Jest does), baseball (American Legion); sexual double-entendres.
The Fraudulence Paradox [147]:
The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside — you were fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn’t find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were.
Other: Berry Paradox, Russell’s paradox, list of logic symbols, respice finem, Moser.
–(Feeling like a fraud is a natural result of trying to communicate in regular linear time what truly occurs in instantaneous all-encompassing time? Is dieing like writing? Writing is like giving full expression to what happens in an instant — that is– life?)
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