VLVL2 (9.5): "No Continuity, No Persistence"

[Dave Monroe]

"'We've always believed in your sincerity, but it
can't get you much further--when do we start seeing
you concentrate, where's the attention span?  Blithely
driving off down the road in some little low-rent
touring machine, showing up again in something from an
assistant buyers' sale at Zody's beggin' to be taken
back, on again off again over the years, no
continuity, no persistence, no ... fucking ...
attention.  All we see's somebody running because if
she stops running she'll fall, and nothing beyond.'"
(VL, Ch. 9, p. 155)

Cf. ...

"He’s waiting for Ilse, for his movie-child, to return
to Zwölfkinder, as she has every summer at this
time...." (GR, Pt. III, pp. 397-8)

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/gr40.htm

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/p-q.html#pokler-i

   "'Personal density,' Kurt Mondaugen in his
Peenemünde office not too many steps away from here,
enunciating the Law which will one day bear his name,
'is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth.'
   "'"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your
present, your now.  It is the familiar 'delta-t'
considered as a dependent variable.  The more you
dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your
bandwidth, the more solid your persona.  But the
narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are."
(GR, Pt. III, p. 509)

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/gr49.htm

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