From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1683 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Saturday, November 23 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1683 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Strange Boy ["David J. Phillips" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:53:27 -0500 From: "David J. Phillips" Subject: Re: Strange Boy After all of this wonderfully evocative talk about that wonderfully evocative song, I feel kind of foolish bringing this up, but: one of my favorite cartoons is of a highway sign reading "TRAFFIC EASES INEXPLICABLY 1/2 MILE AHEAD" DJP On 22/11/13 21:5856, c Karma wrote: > I believe that line references someone looking out at a freeway.(Hmmmm, the > 405?) and becoming mesmerized by the peristaltic visual of groups of cars as > they clump and relax...imagine the larger picture of what it looks like when > you are in traffic and the drivers in front of you slow and stop briefly, > forcing you to slow to a stop, which forces those following you to slow to a > stop and on and on (mass), then suddenly the traffic eases and the group of > cars has space between as they accelerate, only to slow and stop again (mass). > It's a repeating sequence of mass and space.CCFrom: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com > Subject: Strange Boy > > Mike, thanks for that - what do you (or any of you) make of these lines: > > "He sees the cars as sets of waves, sequences of mass and space" > > ? ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1683 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------