Upper West Siders don't listen. Once again, Pynchon a genius: knew social distancing like a prophet. You can bet he was home, just around the corner.

[Charles Albert]

So, having closed pretty much every mountain in N. America (Heavenly is
getting hammered with 6 feet this week...after essentially none since
December), last night they closed my gyms.

I'm gonna be forced to try to finish Against the Day.


love,

cfa


On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 2:54 PM Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> You know it's getting real when the parking lot at the gym looks like the
> one at work....
>
> love,
>
> cfa
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 2:38 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> You might imagine how regular citizens, not kinda wonkish or academic
>> types
>> like us, smart enough but
>> with no experience with the concept (with examples) of 'exponential".....
>>
>> Ye old Middle East story of the king and the grain of sand on one
>> chessboard square doubling every square; or the
>> a penny on the first day of a month doubling all thirty days......
>>
>> No one believes unless you and they have the time to virtually perform it
>> literally.
>>
>> I got blown off Facebook in my town info site when I suggested earlier in
>> the week that soon it would be like the end of the week
>> that has unfolded....
>>
>> So it went.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 2:10 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Give it some time, and NYC will look like Rome:
>> >
>> > https://www.skylinewebcams.com/de/webcam/italia.html
>> >
>> > So will Berlin. As I have been telling everybody for weeks now: It is an
>> > exponential function.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> --
>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>
>