M&D - Chapter 19-21 - Time

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, manipulating time. What happened in the West with clocks, a motif. Standardizing, regulating and making all conform to it.....

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> On Mar 29, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
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> ON TIME
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> Charles Clerc in 'Mason&Dixon&Pynchon' mentions how time and space are related in terms of restraints, that is, the means to limit, to codify, to standardize. 
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> And how the calendar reform shows how time is manipulated overruling the people's protests.
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> (p. 97)
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>> 29. mar. 2015 kl. 21.50 skrev Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com>:
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>> According to David Cowart in 'TP & the dark passages of history’ M&D is a book that «contextualizes its meditation on spatial phenomena (the Line and its orientation to the heavens) by a remarkably exhaustive attention to the temporal - to time, that is, in all it’s manifestations.» p. 145
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>>> 29. mar. 2015 kl. 21.05 skrev David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
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>>> Space vs Time, not Good vs Evil.
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>>>> On Sunday, March 29, 2015, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> Rev’d, after telling the Landlord to serve Mason a pint, goes on to say:
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>>>> «(…) the Battle-fields we know, situated in Earth’s three Dimensions, have also their counterparts in Time.»
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>>>> Which Earthly Battlefields? Good vs. Evil?
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>>>> Counterparts in time? There was a battle over how we, the people, should perceive Time? Lunar goddess-time vs. Solar patriarchal-time?
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>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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