a sincere question

[David Morris]

Good stuff, Alice.

Pure experience versus thought-processed is a Very Big Pynchon theme.  Of
course normal humans can usually only do the latter.  But fiction can
strive...

On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

> 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
>
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