You want to slow Time?

Sat Jan 23 17:26:56 CST 2016

Here's a time-wasting email for y'all. Yes, I did do two stints of snow
shoveling
since I avoided playing more online. Snow is high but not wet.
and here's what I learned. First, when I was young, snow-shoveling was
about the only
house chore I DID like, dunno why but something with visible, needed help
and
getting warm in the doing. I still remember, Proust-like, the slow growth
of warming sometimes even up to
sweating under the clothes .Where are the Snowdens and Kohuts of
yesteryear?,
but to get back to what I learned yesterday and promptly forgot--when long
walkways and other places were
swept yesterday eve, yes simply swept hard, the snow was so light.
Instead of hopping online this morn I shudda
jumped right out there and shoveled half before dawn and, taking it
heart-attack easy, again say
at eight and THEN one could have just handled it like Woman in the (Snow)
Dunes--a fave novel--
the rest of the day, sweeping ( or light shoveling) steadily with pauses to
send more emails and catch up with the "news"
keeping up with it like breaking even
at the roulette wheel---where is that bit in Pynchon about just being under
break-even?--
and then it would be all done as the sand---I mean snow-- keeps falling but
I would have had a nice workout and slept well and probably late so I
wouldn't bother you all too much. as someone wrote, One has to imagine
Sisyphus happy.

Stay Warm,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> You picked the right day "to waste time"....Because I do not want to go
> shovel snow and duty avoidance is the birth of
> play.  And since we only learn what we repeat, you
> really didn't. (If anyone else reads the posts.)
>
> What did TP write about understanding the structure of his (our) ignorance
> in SL? So, I filled it in like a missing palimpsest. Now we
> half-understand
> the half-wit.
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Of course I remember this now. Apologies for the waste of time. Hopefully
>> I, where I goeth in my ignorance, I help to save someone else from having
>> to go with their own.
>>
>> At the risk of, yet again... Has a definite revised starting date been
>> proposed/floated?
>>
>> As a sort of taking-on of responsibility I can set up a google doc or
>> something so people can see a floating, real-time schedule and sign
>> themselves up for sprockets. I am naturally fucking allergic to schedules
>> or timeliness, but maybe other people like/benefit from stuff like this?
>> And anyway I really want to stick with it myself, so maybe this'll help.
>>
>> Thing is, I really would like to admin one/several sprockets in the sense
>> that I want to provide an especially close reading, and share those
>> thoughts, and hear other people respond--I mean, I want that for the whole
>> thing, in addition to a few elevated/highlighted sections. But also I have
>> been uncharacteristically busy with, like, dayjob stuff, and also I know
>> the way I tend to have an unstable personal life which often keeps me from
>> committing to things like this. In short, I am not sure beyond maybe like
>> once or twice/day communication, I would be the best at
>> engaging/administrating a real-time conversation.
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Your answer. So far.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> Before "it is too late". ---page 3, line 3.
>>
>> GROUP READ of Beyond the Zero section of GR.
>> In Memory of Dave Monroe and James Kyllo & because Laura Kelber.
>>
>> From scene to scene, sprockets to sprockets, as they were first
>> thought to be.  (But they're not. Who knows what they mean?)
>> One week per sprocket bracket (since almost all have read it already,
>> right, many more than once?).    Pick your sprocket below.
>>
>> Starting now. Short sections. The Big Short. Martin Short.
>> You can improvise day-by-day, they are so short,  no need to prep
>> within your busy life.Just point and ask questions and the smart
>> under-posters will give the answers. Ask our translators.  A--and the
>> bloviators will blow. So you will have a breather. Did I say short?
>> Did I say improvise? Did I say "Self, no need to say everything you
>> think should go on record, anything more than zero on the page is
>> better than zero and the beyond is still beyond."
>>
>> Jan 8--16          Pp 3--8      Mark Kohut, intrepid bloviator.
>> Jan 17-23         pp 8--17
>> Jan 24--31      pp 17--20
>> (yes, only 3-4 pages; time already for catch-up after everyone jumps
>> in with their overarching GR experiences and perceptions)
>>
>> Feb 7--14      pp 20-30
>> Feb 14-21     pp 30-38
>> Feb 21-27     pp 38-42
>>
>> Feb 28-Mar 5    pp 42-48
>> Mar 6 -- 12        pp 48-54
>> Mar 13-19        pp 54-61
>> Mar 20-26        pp 61-72
>> Mar 27-Apr 2     pp72--74
>>
>> Apr 3--9            pp 74-85
>> Apr 10-16         pp 85-94
>> Apr 17 -23        pp 94-116
>>
>> Spring break (and or catch-up with longest section)
>> May 1--7           pp 116--121
>> May 8-14          pp 122--139
>> May 15-21        pp 139-147
>> May 22-28        pp 147- 156
>> May 29-Ju 4     pp 156  --170
>>
>> Ju 5 -11            pp 179--177
>> Ju 12--19          pp 177-180       Mark Kohut, past riverrun, etc.
>> (Will auction off an overarching
>>                                                     summary to the
>> first person who asks.)
>>
>> This pagination is from the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Miller cover.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of, has there been much discussion of the pace of the read? I
>>> mean, seems most everybody agrees it should proceed slowly, for the sake of
>>> depth and precision, but what does slowly mean for most people? ~2-3pp/day?
>>> 5?
>>>
>>> Also people, on account of being alive, are going to miss the odd day or
>>> two, and so you don't want three days' accumulation of GR pages to seem
>>> prohibitive, insurmountable.
>>>
>>> GL with the storm. Chicago is having the mildest winter in recent memory.
>>>
>>> > On Jan 23, 2016, at 4:28 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Be safe at home, without work to do, in a major snowstorm ALMOST TWO
>>> MONTHS
>>> > before the Gravity's Rainbow Group Read. ( I make this sound like it's
>>> a bad thing and at my age,
>>> > be nice if time did have a stop)
>>> >
>>> > Make this silent promise, you can ignore any, most or all of my GR
>>> posts, flush away with that
>>> > giant sucking sound, BUT don't use the too-many-of them to......stop
>>> out of the Read.
>>> > Start other GR threads, as is happening all around us now.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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