Welcome to Mondaugen's Law, a blog that will chronicle our family move from Connecticut, USA to Kodaikanal, India, where we will teach and live at the Kodaikanal International School for a few years. What would possess us to do this, the various things that happen, and any other thoughts that seem relevant, will be the subject of the blog.
Personal density," Kurt Mondaugen in his Peenemunde office not too many steps from "here, enunciating the Law which will one day bear his name, "is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth."
"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar Dt considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you’re having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago.
--Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 509
If you can figure out why, great. If not, oh well.
October 6, the moving company arrives with a 3.5 cubic meter box to ship all our most beloved worldly goods (not the kids) to Kodaikanal. What would you take if you were moving to India? We haven't an answer yet either, but by the end of the day on Thursday, we will. I promise photos in the next post.
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