Temporal Bandwidth

[David Morris]

Ossification is Personal Density.  It is not a life oriented goal, but it
is a moon/bone world goal. Death World.

On Thursday, March 27, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> 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> 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<#145068b7fb227abc_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 <#145068b7fb227abc_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
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>   - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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