This is P-related. Discuss.

[Prashant Kumar]

There should be an option when you right click to "Paste as plain text" on
your computer. For your iPad there isn't the option. Although maybe you
mean that screws things up.

Though if you can't please send your pasted tweets anyway; they would still
be intelligible when displayed as HTML. I and I'm sure many others
appreciate the link discovery.

P.

On Thursday, 21 February 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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?)
>
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