GRGR(19) - Temporal Bandwidth

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

That's the one! A no frames version sentient Rockster. 

"Nature loves to hide." Heraclitus

PS Topsy-Turvy is lots of fun. 

David Morris wrote:
> 
> I finally found it: extremely large temporal bandwidth
> - the consciousness of stone.
> 
> ``Felipe is kneeling out in the sun, making his
> noontime devotionals to the living presence of a
> certain rock back in the wasteland of La Rioja, on the
> eastern slopes of the Andes. According to an Argentine
> legend from the last century, Maria Antonia Correa
> followed her lover into that arid land, carrying their
> newborn child. Herders found her a week later, dead.
> But the infant had survived, by nursing from her
> corpse. Rocks near the site of the miracle have since
> been the objects of yearly pilgrimages. But Felipe's
> particular rock embodies also an intellectual system,
> for he believes (as do M. F. Beal and others) in a
> form of mineral consciousness not too much different
> from that of plants and animals, except for the time
> scale. Rock's time scale is a lot more stretched out.
> `We're talking frames per century,' Felipe like
> everybody else here lately has been using a bit of
> movie language, `per millennium!' Colossal. But Felipe
> has come to see, as those who are not Sentient
> Rocksters seldom do, that history as it's been laid on
> the world is only a fraction, an outward-and-visible
> fraction. That we must also look to the untold, to the
> silence around us, to the passage of the next rock we
> notice - to its aeons of history under the long and
> female persistence of water and air (who'll be there,
> once or twice per century, to trip the shutter?), down
> to the lowland where your paths, human and mineral,
> are most likely to cross....'' Pynchon (1973, p.
> 612-613).
> 
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