Laws
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Sat May 28 22:42:27 CDT 2011
Rumsfeld's Law:
i'm listening to working man and i dont get it
at the base of this colossal MIRV'd embouchure
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> E.g., ...
>
> Mondaugen's Law:
> Personal Density 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 personal. But the narrower your sense of Now, the
> more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble
> remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even — as
> Slothrop now — what you're doing here, at the base of this colossal
> curved embankment....
>
> --Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow (1973) p.509
>
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