Temporal Bandwidth

[Keith Davis]

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> On Mar 27, 2014, at 10:36 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> David Morris
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>> On Thursday, March 27, 2014, Michael Bailey <mikebailey at gmx.us> wrote:
>> David, that temporal bandwidth passage has always interested me as well.
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>> 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
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>> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> David Morris
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> The following isn't Pynchon speaking, is it?
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>>>> “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
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>>>> If someone's bandwidth is zero, maybe that means transcendence of the notion of time.
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>>>>> 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
>> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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