VV(11): Any Sovereign or Broken Yo-Yo further cont'd ...

[Dave Monroe]

Had, in my ramble through Chapter 8 here, intended to
cite very nearly the same passage as a sort of coda to
this thread.  Perhaps it's a good sign that people can
see the punch lines coming down Fifth Avenue here? 
Hope some of this at least is of interest, relevance. 
Anyway, will circle back, albeit perhaps
counterclockwise, and see if I'd have had much of
anything different to say.  This whole temporality
thing is obviously of some interest to me.  But I'm
going to make a run on Section iii this morning, or so
I hope ...

--- jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> You may have made this connection already and I may
> have missed it, but just
> to be sure, from "Nearer, My Couch, to Thee:
> 
> "In the idea of time that had begun to rule city
> life in Poor Richard's day,
> where every second was of equal length and
> irrevocable, not much in the
> course of its flow could have been called nonlinear,
> unless you counted the
> ungovernable warp of dreams, for which Poor Richard
> had scant use. In
> Frances M. Barbour's 1974 concordance of the
> sayings, there is nothing to be
> found under "Dreams," dreams being as unwelcome in
> Philly back then as their
> frequent companion, sleep, which was considered time
> away from accumulating
> wealth, time that had to be tithed back into the
> order of things to purchase
> 20 hours of productive waking. During the Poor
> Richard years, Franklin,
> according to the "Autobiography," was allowing
> himself from l A.M. to 5 A.M.
> for sleep. The other major nonwork block of time was
> four hours, 9 P.M. to 1
> A.M., devoted to the Evening Question, "What good
> have I done this day?"
> This must have been the schedule's only occasion for
> drifting into reverie
> -- there would seem to have been no other room for
> speculations, dreams,
> fantasies, fiction. Life in that orthogonal machine
> was supposed to be
> nonfiction."
> 
> And then there is always that harmonic synchrony
> often coming into play when
> several women of menstruating age co-habitate. It's
> enough to make even poor
> linear Atlas shrug, or to take out the trash without
> being asked...
> 
> jody 


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