NP: For Your Consideration

[Paul Mackin]

Distressing to folks with fine musical ears, when digital came along.
Saving their old 33s.  Still wanting to mess with Mr. Inbetween. A longing
for the Infinite, to change gears.  Einstein vs quantum mechanics, maybe.

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:59 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Decline" of interstices?  That's a whole 'nuther subject that could be
> cool, but more likely depressing.  We NEED interstices.  The Greeks always
> had Dionysus.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:25 AM Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Didn't the decline of the interstices probably begin back with the
>> ancient Greeks, Thales or somebody, who started using logic to describe the
>> world? Before that there was nothing but interstices. As it were.
>>
>> Then, there's fuzzy math and fuzzy logic David's post reminds us of.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> VERY nice...
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:53 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Interstices" is a ripe word, full of meaning.
>>>>
>>>> Makes me think of fuzzy borders, stitches between fabrics, transitions
>>>> between eras.  I think GRs Pynchon would call it the Zone.
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:46 AM Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I had a work friend once who was always saying his preference was for
>>>>> the interstices.  This was very long ago but I think it was something like,
>>>>> in Pynchonian terms,  preferring the noise to the signal. Or maybe the
>>>>> excluded middle. He had a very interesting mind. I wish I could remember an
>>>>> example.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:40 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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