on movement in M & D

[Mark Kohut]

This fine Pynchon-like list of movement(s) could also be subheaded
1)Globalization
2) Consumerism.

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> The movement of astronomers accross the globe to measure Venus transit
> times to find the distance to the Sun and thus derive the planetary
> distances of the solar system, a new ocean to explore. Maskelyne testing
> the lunar distance method of finding longitude. The movement of snowballs,
> lawbreakers, sailors, slaves, rum, sugar, spice, guns,tea, religion, sheep,
> soap, textiles the movement of lines and creation of new lines.
> > On Jan 1, 2018, at 3:21 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >> ‏Verified account @ellesep 12m12 minutes ago
> >> More
> >> 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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