AtDtDA23: Mixed Feelings about History

[Dave Monroe]

On 11/28/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

>   "Among the many superstitions inside this mountain was a belief
> that the tunnel was 'neutral ground,' exempt not only from political
> jurisdictions but from Time itself.  The Anarchists and the Socialists
> on the shift had their own mixed feelings about history...." (AtD,
> Pt. III, p. 654)

history
"Innocent as a child, perhaps unaware--perhaps--that in his play
[Mexico] wrecks the elegant rooms of history, threatens the idea of
cause and effect itself. [...] Will Postwar be nothing but 'events,'
newly created one moment to the next? No links? Is it the end of
history?" 56; "daffy about that history" 65; "historied" 71; "[War]
provides the raw material to be recorded into history" 105; "Our
history is an aggregate of last moments" 149; secular, 167; "is not
woven by innocent hands" 277; "winter anxieties about the End of
History" 277; "the multitudes passed over by God and History" 297;
"when there is no more History" 303; "History and Geopolitics move
them surely into confrontation" 342; "The historical moment" 388;
"some dialectic is still operating in History" 540; "by the time you
get any summary, the whole thing will have changed" 540-41; "he has
been journeying underneath history: that history is Earth's mind" 589;
rock's perspective ("Sentient Rocksters"), 612-13; "historical
structure" 624; "prehistoric wastes. . .transmuted to the very
substance of History" 639; "Pensiero is an agent of History" 643;
Karmic Hammer, 644; predestined shape of, 701; "Theory of History"
704; "historied hands" 718; centrifugal, 737; See also Time

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/h.html#history

time
"He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through
sterile history--a known past, a projectable future" 126; "to keep
Grid Time synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time" 133; "spirits from
other parts of the veld--for time and space on their side have no
meaning, all is together" 153; penetrating the moment, 158; "slices of
time growing thinner" 159; "There is the moment, and its
possibilities" 159; all at once,165; secular, 169; "the clock
ratcheting time minutewise into their past" 193; war reconfiguring,
257; "isolate inside the way time is passing" 303; "the true momentum
of his time" 312; "time-modulation peculiar to Oneirine" 389;
future/past, 400; "the space and time were Blicero's own" 486; "no
serial time over there; events all there in the same eternal moment"
624; "the oneway flow of European time" 724; "herding us through time"
724; "a presence, analogous to the Aether, flows through time" 726;
"his time's assembly" 738; "time is a funny thing" 752; See also
delta-t; history; [TOO LATE];

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/t.html#time