NP: For Your Consideration

[Mark Kohut]

This line is within throwing distance of a terrif Pynchon line, imho.

"Meaning is being made in the saccades and the interstitial spaces you
ignore."  Even better than Jochen's pun, we get a new image of the real
world's meaning  as not found on paper. Not in them there university press
books. The real territory is in the holes in the map, so to imagine.

Yes, I had to look up 'saccades', didju?

 As above, so below.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:16 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dylan's Mr Jones was a bit more easy on the ear
>
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>> I don’t quite know who he is addressing
>> or what are the miracles
>> or when they begin
>> otherwise it does seem highly insulting
>>
>> > On Jan 15, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > From Gnomon, by Nick Harkaway:
>> >
>> > "You sit reading news that has nothing new in it, telling yourself that
>> because you hold in your hand some glossy skeuomorphic lozenge you are
>> technologically au fait, and that because you know where in the endless
>> repetition of tribal politics and fairy dust economics your world is, or
>> have consumed many of those books published in pale cream jackets by
>> university presses, you are somehow informed about what is important.
>> >
>> > You are not. Meaning is being made in the saccades and the interstitial
>> spaces you ignore. When the miracles begin, you will declare that the world
>> has taken a great leap forward, and —wearing the amazed expression of a
>> pantomime clown—you will quote Proust as tomorrow’s children make jokes
>> that derive their humour from puns invoking senses you do not have. You
>> will wear your bewilderment first as modish nostalgia and then as
>> politically charged performance art, and finally as a proud, doomed ethical
>> position whose idiot gravity you cannot escape. You will go to your grave
>> protesting that everyone else has misunderstood. Oh, bravo. Bravo."
>>
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
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