Not P but more DFW

[Mike Jing]

"Oxymoron" is exactly right. Thanks, Mark.



On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 11:31 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The most common use, perhaps, of autonomic is in the phrase "autonomic
> nervous system"...
>
> I am sure you have looked up the dictionary definition of
> "autonomic"....unconscious, involuntary.....
>
> So DFW has penned an oxymoron brilliantly: 'will' used this one means one
> doesn't have time to will....
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 7:41 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From DFW's How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart:
>>
>> It is not an accident that great athletes are often called “naturals,”
>> because they can, in performance, be totally present: they can proceed on
>> instinct and muscle-memory and autonomic will such that agent and action
>> are one.
>>
>> What does "autonomic will" mean here exactly?
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