East into the night

[Tom Evans]

At 12:06 PM 6/23/96 -0500, Brian D. McCary wrote:
>Question:  " A-and--why is it dark in the east and why are there no more bars?"
>
>Interesting that east is not only where the sun rises, giving it an obvious
>prominant place in nature based religion, but is also from where the night
>approaches as well.  The further east you go, the further into the blackness
>of the night you travel, until you travel past closing time, and have only the
>harsh, sobering light of dawn to travel into.  Traveling west at the right
>rate, you could, in theory, stay in Suck Hour time indefinitely.  He has 
>essentially turned the sunrise worship model on its head.  

To be hopelessly literal (or littoral), if you are in Newport News, there
are no bars in the east because that is where the ocean is.  That is also
why it is dark in the east: no streetlights. But this begs the question of
why it is dark in the east, etc., on Profane's "abstract Street."  I am not
sure how important the actual geography of Newport News is here.  

Re that same paragraph, (p. 9, Harper Perennial), could Vineland's Zoyd be
the "potential berzerk" studying window-jumping technique?  Does the
chronology fit?