<div dir="ltr">wind and vapor esp......<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Smoke Teff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smoketeff@gmail.com" target="_blank">smoketeff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div><div>I think you could open up a lot by noting the different forms of wind, vapor, movement, the march of history, human influence, etc. I’ve been marking a lot of them on this read and have been planning some correspondence that tries to single those lines. </div><div><br>On Jan 1, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Mark Kohut <<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Focusing on this concept--movement--picked up from an essay<div>in Ms Hinds' collection of essays on M & D--cannot even</div><div>remember which essay it was a part of. </div><div><br></div><div> The novel is about movement in a major way. M & D</div><div>are in motion throughout. Global movement between a few countries and, of course,</div><div>the full on-the-road but slow movement of running the line. Which ends sorta finished, right?</div><div>a major visto scene looking West, right? That famous frontier thesis of American History embodied</div><div>in that part of the story.</div><div><br></div><div>America, where immigrants are always arriving and moving on in. </div><div><br></div><div>Even the girls are vrooming, zooming around all the time. Restlessness. </div><div><br></div><div>The 'so un-American' waiting in line, remarks the narrator of The Nix. America as a nation</div><div>of preferring speed, acting out speed; living and working faster and faster comes to mind. </div><div>Not like much of settled Europe, self-stopped by rootedness. </div><div><br></div><div>Movement so fast in P's influential Henry Adams' time and telling that he was always "unprepared' for the present. </div><div><br></div><div>America as a nation always changing, never fixed. America as the nation where pragmatism </div><div>could emerge as the national philosophy. Pragmatism meaning open-ended, tentative 'final' truths;</div><div>pragmatism meaning absolute fixed 'settled' truths have little foothold; pragmatism meaning that the meaning</div><div>is in the fluid forms of the historically contingent, never like Plato's Divine-like Forms. Pragmatism as </div><div>a philosophy of movement.  </div><div><br></div><div>America always like the ending of The Crying of Lot 49. Unknown. </div><div>Within patterns and light along the ranges. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PS. Easter egg on constant movement: in 1939 the American family could not still still for television the NYT predicted: </div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.27000001072883606px;white-space:pre-wrap">The New York Times, in 1939, on why this "television" thing would never catch on: "The average American family hasn't time for it.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.27000001072883606px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.27000001072883606px;white-space:pre-wrap">PPS: D</span><a class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465account-group m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-account-group m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-action-profile m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-user-profile-link m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ellesep" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(20,23,26);text-decoration:none;margin-right:5px;overflow:hidden;display:inline!important" target="_blank"><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465FullNameGroup" style="display:inline!important;max-width:100%"><strong class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465fullname m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465show-popup-with-id m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465u-textTruncate" style="max-width:100%;word-break:break-all;overflow:hidden!important;text-overflow:ellipsis!important;white-space:nowrap!important;word-wrap:normal!important;display:inline!important">anielle Sepulveres</strong></span></a></div><div class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465stream-item-header" style="display:flex;line-height:16px;color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465account-group m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-account-group m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-action-profile m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-user-profile-link m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ellesep" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(20,23,26);text-decoration:none;margin-right:5px;display:inline-flex;overflow:hidden;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465FullNameGroup" style="display:flex;max-width:100%">â€<span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465UserBadges" style="font-size:0.9em"><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465Icon m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465Icon--verified" style="background-color:transparent;display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(29,161,242);padding-left:2px"><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465u-hiddenVisually" style="border:0px!important;font-size:1px!important;height:1px!important;overflow:hidden!important;padding:0px!important;width:1px!important">Verified account</span></span></span><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465UserNameBreak"> </span></span><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465username m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465u-dir m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465u-textTruncate" dir="ltr" style="max-width:100%;unicode-bidi:embed;color:rgb(101,119,134);overflow:hidden!important;text-overflow:ellipsis!important;white-space:nowrap!important;word-wrap:normal!important;direction:ltr!important">@ellesep</span></a><small class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465time" style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(101,119,134);margin-right:5px;white-space:nowrap"> <a href="https://twitter.com/ellesep/status/947536634635083776" class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465tweet-timestamp m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-permalink m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-nav m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-tooltip" title="1:35 PM - 31 Dec 2017" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(101,119,134);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465_timestamp m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-short-timestamp m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-relative-timestamp">12m</span><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465u-hiddenVisually" style="border:0px!important;font-size:1px!important;height:1px!important;overflow:hidden!important;padding:0px!important;width:1px!important">12 minutes ago</span></a></small><div class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465ProfileTweet-action m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465ProfileTweet-action--more m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-more-ProfileTweet-actions" style="display:inline-block;min-width:inherit"><div class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465dropdown"><button class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465ProfileTweet-actionButton m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465u-textUserColorHover m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465dropdown-toggle m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-dropdown-toggle" type="button" style="color:rgb(101,119,134);font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:1;margin:0px;overflow:visible;border:0px;padding-right:9px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:9px"><div class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465IconContainer m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-tooltip" title="More" style="display:inline-block;line-height:0;vertical-align:middle"><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465Icon m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465Icon--caretDownLight m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465Icon--small" style="background-color:transparent;display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:15px"></span><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465u-hiddenVisually" style="border:0px!important;font-size:1px!important;height:1px!important;overflow:hidden!important;padding:0px!important;width:1px!important">More</span></div></button></div></div></div><div class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-tweet-text-container" style="color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465TweetTextSize m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-tweet-text m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465tweet-text" lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:20px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">New York is simultaneously the worst and best place for a breakup because nothing stops moving even for a minute. <span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465sewxr5nkb2coh8f"></span><span class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465sewbrs6jjsn808"></span></p><p class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465TweetTextSize m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-tweet-text m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465tweet-text" lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:20px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><br></p><p class="m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465TweetTextSize m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465js-tweet-text m_2027008192848126104m_-7995189397659691465tweet-text" lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:20px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">Of course, NYC was Philly then. </p></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>