well its obviously a nutcase theory but i get you
language is also somewhat jump-cut: it can never be as truly fluid as music or dance
but even so there’s a spectrum: not exactly sure where to place them but nietzsche and your autistic mate are at opposite ends i reckon. in a way nietzsche is fluid; at the same time he doesn’t map out the argument but just sort of smash cuts from one thought to another. whereas your autistic mate maps it out in the tiniest detail: so detailed, in fact, that perhaps he approaches another kind of fluidity? four points is a quadrilateral. eight an octagon. keep going and eventually you get a perfect (fluid) circle
but you weren’t on about language were you. sorry
all this makes me think about science stuff i was doing. ways of sampling curves (more points, more accurate / fluid); compression (retaining the minimum info for the maximum effect
music: a sinuous violin solo in which every note is fluid with the next; the hand and arm mapping a continuous complex shape in space? versus like stockhausen who is very crude but by leaving gaps in the musical thought creates a very different feeling of movement?
or to put it in terms youll understand its like enya versus toxic by britney u kno
but srsly i totally get you. musicians talk about this a lot: the feeling of time. i remeber reading some borges ages ago and it was really pacy, leading into a fight in some seedy bar in the arse end of nowhere when suddenly this guy tosses up a knife and borges, does, this, thing, where, he, makes, time, slow, way, down just for a moment before it all kicks off. can’t remember how he does it but there you are