NP: For Your Consideration

[Mark Kohut]

"Nothing but interstices" is that what gave us "nothing but net"? (joking)



On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:24 PM, 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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