AtDtDA23: Mixed Feelings about History

[Mark Kohut]

Ah, the "superstition" of timelessness---the eternal, the religious?---which
the regular folk have/had....."telling us that we shouldn't be.....putting railroads"......
has been invaded by........Time......



----- Original Message ----
From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>
To: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:41:24 PM
Subject: RE: AtDtDA23: Mixed Feelings about History

Dave Monroe quotes:

> > "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.

I've mentioned before the influence of trains, their timing, and Swiss
patents for same in shaping Einstein's thought. His million-times-quoted
_gedanken_ (thought) experiment of timing light's passage with one clock on
a train, one off it, is the simplest intuituive representation of why motion
*must* affect time and distance. There's more than Kute verbal
Korrespondence in the choice of a Swiss railroad tunnel, aka a Wurm-hole, as
a place without time.

Think about it also as a "time out" for Reef Traverse: what was he doing
last time we saw him before the Simplon, and what will he be doing after?

And what train traffic after August 1914 -- the kind of traffic that
international socialism and labor movements declare against now, but will
hop aboard then -- will be accelerated by all the tunnels the European
powers are so busily digging?


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