You want to slow Time?

Sat Jan 23 17:28:29 CST 2016

While shoveling I thought I should write, "I did go out and pierce the snow
today, all three allusions intended"

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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