You want to slow Time?

Sat Jan 23 17:41:50 CST 2016

I'm loving the snowmails Mark, from afar in the dreich dark of the
Edinburgh night.
On 23 Jan 2016 23:29, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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