Temporal Bandwidth

[David Morris]

Think about his Law as a means of colonizing time.  Owning past, present
and future.  It it impossible, but lots of damage might result from the
attempt. "Personal Density" isn't a noble goal. It is the opposite of
receptivity.

David Morris

On Thursday, March 27, 2014, Michael Bailey <mikebailey at gmx.us> wrote:

> David, that temporal bandwidth passage has always interested me as well.
>
> For one thing, as you note, it comes from Mondaugen, looking up for a
> moment as it were from his technological rapture to deal with a humanistic
> concern. Speaking with authority and not quoting any scribes
>
>
> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>>
>> Or maybe the more narrow/focused your  sense of Now, the less bound you
>> are to the density of here, like the atoms that are the deeper reality:
>> density is an illusion.  Free of time, one can move through
>> the spaces between matter unimpeded. Electron microscope tripping through
>> space deeper than deep.
>>
>>  David Morris
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 26, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  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." "Temporalbandwidth,"
>>> 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<#145065462f40ca91_>
>>> > 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.
>>>>
>>>> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <#145065462f40ca91_>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>   - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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