Parabola--The Text Speaks

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

>From page 726, Viking ed. of GR--
"[ . . . ] . . . and here in your common drive to the sea feel as much as 
you wish of that dark doubleminded love which is also shame, bravado,
engineers' geopolitics--"spheres of influence" modified to toruses of
Rocket range that are parabolic in section . . . 
   . . . not, as we milght image, bounded below by the line of the Earth it
'rises from' and the Earth it 'strikes' No But Then You Never Really 
Thought It Was Did You Of Course Not It Begins Infinitely Below The Earth
And Goes On Infinitely Back Into The Earth it's only the *peak* that we
are allowed to see, the break up through the surface, out of the other
silent world, violently [. . . ]  "

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
[pardon the typos, please!]