a sincere question

[alice wellintown]

As the title of Miller's novel suggests, time & space are not so
easily distinguished. Is the Mason and Dixon Line a time line or a
space line? Or is it both? All lines are signals ppointing up from the
position of some observer somewhere. The grid, that latitude and the
more allusive longitude seem to form a graph set over a living and
evolving planet in space and time, but there are wedges and receding
and expanding spaces that tick away, are lost, erased from the
calander, from all maesures man may devise. There is a wonderful
little book by the English pholisopher Berrtrand Russell, The ABC Of
Relativity, and in it Russell puts the reader through a few thought
experiments to help her break away from the habit of thinking about
the world in pre-modern space and time. One involves a hotair balloon.
We float in space and time after imbibing a drug, a lethe elixer of
sorts that erases anything that might help us make a GPS. We are a
transit of V-ness. Henri Bergson whispers in our ears, "Duration is
the space you make up or take up, you spaceman. Wake up and shape up
the narrative. That's another Henry, James...but standing on the E
train, where everyone seems preoccupied with the time it takes, the
space changes as the faces fold in and out, too many, too many in such
a tight space and late...well, I'm not sure...I need space to think
about it....
> Hello guys,
> Just read the almost last line of "Tropic of Cancer":
> Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they
> appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious.
> More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space –
> space even more than time.
> does anybody agree or disagree with "More than anything they need to
> be surrounded with sufficient space – space even more than time."?
> I personally think that I always need more time, as I need more self
> confidence.
> Please give me any personal liking replies, thanks!!
> Momo