..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space

[Ian Livingston]

> maybe there's a certain grip that you have to use, and then practice
> and strength come into play...

Well, if we refer, maybe, to Ben in Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion,
maybe it's all in how you hold your mouth. "Gotta hold your mouth just
right," he's always sayin. Might apply to time travel as well as
logging....

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's what I like best about your rather more utilitarian view of a
>> space, as a limited area to discuss.
>
> thanks!  - the burst of enthusiasm I had is fading, and I was starting
> to feel a little embarrassed
>
> obviously non-rigorous  - strictly for fun...applying a name to
> thoughts I already have, or in certain cases letting a name alert me
> to things I've not thought of before, trying it on in various contexts
>
>  >Using that terminology, we might
>> ask, for instance, what part of the drawer should be devoted to folded
>> pairs of socks, what part to undergarments.
>
> I'm not quite that organized, although there is one particular drawer
> that they go in (along with other oddments)
>
> but, yeah, again in a Denis-from-IV-like appreciation of the obvious
> ("it's a *drug* store, man!") -
> not only is there a drawer that is a sock/underwear/misc space
> but there is also a burst of activity I'm considering considering as
> "laundry space"
>
> then there's work-space, cleaning space, sleeping space,
> relationship-space - all having co-ordinate systems that partake of
> more than just 3d + time, so that - non-rigorously, of course - I'm
> very used to multidimensional systems!
>
> moving along non-rigorously (not *anti*-rigorously: I'm aware and
> appreciative of rigor, I just haven't got a lot to offer in that
> dep't) --
>
> Feynmann said some of those particle equations work just as well
> backward as forward in time
>
> so it's probably just my miserable weakness that prevents extra
> degrees of freedom in movement thru time
> - I can conceive the idea of it, and it would be really handy
> sometimes, but even thinking it thru (there are just so many
> co-ordinates!) is difficult...
>
> a problem like continuing a pull-up until head and trunk are above the
> bar - which I've seen done, but is way beyond my current abilities -
> seems easy in comparison
>
> the difference being, I've not actually seen anybody pull off time
> travel other than riding the time escalator along with everybody else
> in the vicinity (afaik)
>
> maybe there's a certain grip that you have to use, and then practice
> and strength come into play...



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant