Breaking the Waves

[Paul Mackin]

Any mention of waves reminds me of that moire thread we got onto a while back.

But to your point,  "breaking of the wave" in GR seems to mean
escaping some kind of cyclic projection of the past. (Incidently, such would be  a puzzling concern for Roger, who a few pages back was ready to give up on cause and effect. But maybe he has coalesed somewhat with Pointsman at this point in time. He IS still thinking probablity even thouigh waveforms aren't the most typical way of expressing such matters. Hope he can figure out a way to control for autocorrelation, a usual problem in time series projections. 
A few years later there would be Box and Jenkins.  Anyway, these aren''t the point here. Forgive the digression. It's probably all wrong anyway.)

Another image is the wave breaking before reaching the safe haven of the beach Roger see Jessica as.

You may be onto something. Is there a Roger-like guy in the movie who is
somehow saved by a Jessica? Haven't seen it but read about its 
having lovers of opposite temperaments.			

Note that the movie pluralizes "wave". Why would they do that?

			P.

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From: 	Keith Brecher[SMTP:Keith_Brecher at brown.edu]
Sent: 	Saturday, March 15, 1997 4:31 PM
To: 	pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: 	Breaking the Waves

When I saw Lars Von Triers' remarkable new movie "Breaking the Waves," the
person I was with said: "Hey, man, that was a great movie, but what the
hell does the title mean?" We had no idea, but recently, re-reading GR, I
came across the phrase "the breaking of the wave" in the Roger/Jessica
church visit episode and I've since wondered whether this might not be the
source of the film's mysterious title. Independently of "Breaking the
Waves," I sort of thought Von Trier's earlier release "Zentropa" showed
evidence of TRP influence, but I dismissed that sort of thinking as paranoid. 
  Does anybody else think the title from "Breaking the Waves" comes from
GR? How about TRP's influence on Von Trier?

Keith_Brecher at brown.edu