M&D - Chapter 19-21 - Time

[Elisabeth Romberg]

So yeah, astronomical measurements like parallax impose spatial limitations. 
Calendars, and like Mark said, clocks, impose limitations on Time.

To quote Clark again: « All the fantasies in the book - dreams, hallucinations, surreal phantasmagoria - are ways to escape from the grip of calculation, mathematical precision, reason - in short, science.»  

(M&D&P, p. 97)

> 30. mar. 2015 kl. 13.18 skrev Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com>:
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> Standardized time for the masses, whilst the elite exists outside of it, or in, as they please.
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> Yadda and Pinkett Smith knows time is relative: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/?_r=0 <http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/?_r=0>
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> "WILLOW: I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.
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> JADEN: It’s proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It’s relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.
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> WILLOW: Because living."
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>> 30. mar. 2015 kl. 12.22 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>>:
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>> Yeah, manipulating time. What happened in the West with clocks, a motif. Standardizing, regulating and making all conform to it.....
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Mar 29, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l>
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