Parabola--The Text Speaks

[Derek Davis]

>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 [. . . ]  "

OK, that answers at least a good part of my question.

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