Atdtda29: Like God, the present tense, 835

[Mark Kohut]

Yea, that time shuffling must fit into overarching Time themes in the book.....
   
  Perhaps that notion of co-consciousness?
   
  Re; below................Why did OBA not analogize 'like God' until after that phrase about death?.......'to find one's way inside the moment, like God" fits into an understanding of 
  'God' as many theologians from many traditions have written of him, right?.....Always
  present, always God every second?...
   
  Death means nothing to God (as usually understood, yes?), so according to Danilo, to
  live "inside the moment"......is to beat death.......certainly the 'fear of'...............
  The present is eternal (as someone once wrote).................like God........................
  being inside the moment is to enter timelessness?............(big AtD theme)...............
  full mindfulness (in that Eastern tradition) means being "inside the moment", yes?......
   
  MK
   
  

Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:
  [835.14-16] ... though it was now of the essence to find one's way inside
the moment, with death invisible and everywhere, "like God, it occurred to
Danilo afterward.


Which of course takes us back to the beginning of Atdtda29, to Theign's
"almost godlike [perspective]" on 807.


And then there's that "it occurred to Danilo afterward". The fast-forward is
a feature of AtD. Cf. the Theign/Max Klautsch insert on 812: "Discussing it
later in Vienna ..." etc, such moments--scattered throughout--asking us to
consider the present tense of the novel. 




       
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