Gravity's Rainbow (Large [enough to enter])

[rj]

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> the scale of Gravity's 
>      Rainbow (Large) awes and overwhelms us.  It is large enough to enter.

O the irony, the irony.

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And so,

?> These bigger inside than out phenomena

Make me think of Piranesi's imaginary prisons, too:
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~phoenix/plate15.htm
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/cjackson/piranesi/index.html

And Escher:
http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/RelativityLg.html
http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/AnotherWorldIILg.html
from
http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/

Though these probably both relate more to the novel's opening sequence.

This exhibition sounds interesting in this context also:
http://www.boijmans.rotterdam.nl/engels/agenda/archief/tegotec.htm

But perhaps the denouement to Chuckles' sleigh ride was best pre-empted
by Pieter Bruegel the Elder:
http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/babel.jpg
or, more aptly
http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/littlebabel.jpg
from
http://www.thinkage.on.ca/~dmowbray/bruegel.html

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"There is a Hand to turn the time, 
Though thy Glass today be run,
Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low
Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . . "
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