By any other name Geli (2)

[jporter]

TF:

>By any other Name: Geli Tripping and Pynchon's doubled
>children

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>
>The double in various forms is found in V., CL, VL, M&D, and
>GR. Charles Hohmann notes that in GR, the double applies
>mostly to children. Since Geli is a "child" in GR we might
>consider why Pynchon applies the double motif to children
>and if names, half names, provide clues as to what Pynchon
>is alluding to in and outside of the text.


Equivalence between gravitational and inertial masses of the same body.
That which defines, at the most basic level, the potential connection
between the purely objective, and, the tendency for a body to remain in any
given state of motion, relative to everything else, unless acted upon.

jody