Jesuit Telegraph

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

All this is quite fascinating, but I wonder if it might not also
be interesting to integrate your comments on cloacae with
the need for communication? The carrier pigeon comes to mind.

Not to leave out simultaneity, I think I recall reading about
the Romans studying the entrails of birds to obtain information
or messages from the future.

What goes around comes around, I guess, even if it's the
same old, same old- There's a message in there 
somewhere about returning eternally, or not.

Might all be a matter of transmutation- dross to information.
The whole topic has something of a sales pitch about it. I 
think the description of Chappe's efforts to convince the
legislature is especially apt in that regard- It's one thing
to make watches, (instantaneous communication devices,
perpetual motion machines, etc.) quite another to market 
them successfully. At times it might require a back alley 
approach. Could be more of an art than a science. Which is
to say that maybe the solution is for the construction and
the marketing to be combined into the same process with
digestion. 

No. I'm not telling you to eat shit. I was thinking
more of that snake with a taste for it's own tail. Anyway,
eating time lies in the future. Until then I guess we'll just
have to make do-do with esp.


In a message dated 1/20/02 7:12:18 AM, davidmmonroe at yahoo.com writes:

<< Okay, seeing as we're finally at the appropriate point
for this, digging (and not altogether inappropriately
here, either) into the Pynchon List mailbag ...

   "'Speaking as Postmaster-General,' Dr. Franklin
will later amplify, back in Philadelphia, '-- I see
our greatest problem as Time,

                   {snip}