on movement in M & D

[Smoke Teff]

I think you could open up a lot by noting the different forms of wind, vapor, movement, the march of history, human influence, etc. I’ve been marking a lot of them on this read and have been planning some correspondence that tries to single those lines. 

> On Jan 1, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Focusing on this concept--movement--picked up from an essay
> in Ms Hinds' collection of essays on M & D--cannot even
> remember which essay it was a part of. 
> 
>  The novel is about movement in a major way. M & D
> are in motion throughout. Global movement between a few countries and, of course,
> the full on-the-road but slow movement of running the line. Which ends sorta finished, right?
> a major visto scene looking West, right? That famous frontier thesis of American History embodied
> in that part of the story.
> 
> America, where immigrants are always arriving and moving on in. 
> 
> Even the girls are vrooming, zooming around all the time. Restlessness. 
> 
> The 'so un-American' waiting in line, remarks the narrator of The Nix. America as a nation
> of preferring speed, acting out speed; living and working faster and faster comes to mind. 
> Not like much of settled Europe, self-stopped by rootedness. 
> 
> Movement so fast in P's influential Henry Adams' time and telling that he was always "unprepared' for the present. 
> 
> America as a nation always changing, never fixed. America as the nation where pragmatism 
> could emerge as the national philosophy. Pragmatism meaning open-ended, tentative 'final' truths;
> pragmatism meaning absolute fixed 'settled' truths have little foothold; pragmatism meaning that the meaning
> is in the fluid forms of the historically contingent, never like Plato's Divine-like Forms. Pragmatism as 
> a philosophy of movement.  
> 
> America always like the ending of The Crying of Lot 49. Unknown. 
> Within patterns and light along the ranges. 
> 
> 
> 
> PS.  Easter egg on constant movement: in 1939 the American family could not still still for television the NYT predicted: 
> The New York Times, in 1939, on why this "television" thing would never catch on: "The average American family hasn't time for it.
> 
> PPS: Danielle Sepulveres
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> @ellesep
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> New York is simultaneously the worst and best place for a breakup because nothing stops moving even for a minute. 
> 
> Of course, NYC was Philly then. 
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