Saunders on TRP

[David Morris]

Would you care to expand on what you see as Pynchon's notion of temporal
bandwidth?

The following isn't Pynchon speaking, is it?

"Personal density," Kurt Mondaugen in his Peenemünde office not too many
steps away from here, enunciating the Law which will one day bear his name,
"is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth." "Temporal bandwidth," is
the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar "[delta-] t"
considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in
the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But
the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.

-Gravity's Rainbow p. 506

If someone's bandwidth is zero, maybe that means transcendence of the
notion of time.




On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Gotta disagree with this very strongly. I think P challenges the validity
> of the 'be here now' mentality with his notion of temporal bandwidth.
> Slothrop's dissolution (Tempbdwth = 0)is the opposite of enlightenment.
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> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote :
> The excluded middle and the middle way are so obviously aligned. Paradox
> is Pynchon and Zen. Slothrop found the Tao and his dissolving away is a
> common feat of enlightened masters.  Pynchon made Slothrop into a Buddha.
> Deal with it.
> > David MorrisOn Tuesday, March 25, 2014, Markekohut
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