This is P-related. Discuss.

[Markekohut]

Michael,

Here's the thing. Those little blocked-off rectangular texts that contain those twitter lines and links
I find must go out as an HTML whole, not as plain text. When I find and send on my IPad, I cannot use plain text. ( or I do not yet know how to copy and paste which might come in plain text.)

maybe I will try to wait to send anything until I am using a regular library computer as my regular one needs devirused or replaced.

Sorry

Sent from my iPad

On Feb 21, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Markekohut wrote:
> 
>> Speakers of languages that don't distinguish between present/future save more money, smoke less, practice safer sex
> 
> well, hrmph, english has both, right?
> 
> i'm going to do this or that
> 
> i will do this or that (bringing in the possible "triumph (or not) of the will")
> 
> tomorrow i go to the beach - okay, not so common, but usable in that
> everybody would probably know what you mean,  For instance, an
> itinerary - on Tuesday the 22nd we go to Belgium eg.
> 
> but anyway - that's an interesting point.  does weak FTR mean there is
> an assumption that one's trajectory as set by one's current activities
> and plans is relatively strong compared to all the other things that
> might happen including a change of plans or the intervention of
> unforeseen circumstances?
> 
> does this equate with a custom of "playing the probabilities" which
> could also be called "faith" of a sort?
> 
> gets into Hume territory - how do we know that there is in fact a
> causal connection between our activities and their sequelae?
> 
> and then into that po-mo stuff, words shape thought which then shapes
> words, consciousness creates vocabulary creates consciousness
> 
> a-and then, I guess, into Joyce "...that whets the wits, that finds
> the nameform, that entails the ensuance of existentiality"
> 
> intersecting with Pynchon at various points (Lindsey Noseworth's
> expatiation on trajectories, and the time travel sequences in AtD, are
> the ones that spring to mind, but also perhaps Vond v Zoyd, Zoyd's
> wishful thinking and his house - not planned at all, but extruded
> gradually according to his desires moment by moment, evolving from a
> trailer shaped like a canned ham [once again with the pig motif!] into
> a rambling structure with rooms and extensions and bluejays on the
> roof and a dog to chase them and sunlight coming through the vines
> near the window - which Vond, expressing his extremely different
> nature, seizes in his quest for a deterministic future - certainly a
> weak differentation for BV between now and later, and a strong element
> of planning, at least during his moments of glory)
> 
> PS - Mark, I really appreciate the discussion questions, but without
> intending any rancor or pedantry, may I ask you to please remember
> that plain text is a desideratum and will give your words a wider
> audience in posterity?  (both now and later...hmm, am I being
> Brock-Vondlike here?)