grgr (28): cosmic windmill mandala (--- "graphicity" in pynchon's prose)

[David Morris]

>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
>
>>  this cosmic windmill mandala (- & once more there is jungian 
>>"quadricity")on page 624 made me think of the function of "graphicity" [?] 
>>in pynchon's work.<<
>>
>>in v we have all the vs in the chapter headlines, the kilroy (436) and the 
>>hands (471f.).<<
>>
>>in col49 there is on page 34 the posthorn (- "a loop, triangle and 
>>trapezoid")that reappears on page 58.<<
>>
>>in gr we find the "celluloid margins" in between the chapters, the emblem 
>>of the schwarzkommando on page 361, the houseboat formula on page 450 and, 
>>eventually, the mandala sign, which initiated this whole thought of 
>>mine.<<
>>
>>in vineland and m&d there are no graphical signs. why?<<

Kai,

I don't believe your characterization holds w/ regard to MD.  I remember the 
"spiral" being a repeated image in MD, though I'd agree that it is much more 
subtle.  This is from a post of mine way back during the MDMD:

>>From: David Morris <davidm at hrihci.com> Subject: MDMD(19) - The Vortex 
>>Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:23:10 -0700
>>
>>MD 560.26
"Gone was the Chance that might have changed my Life.  It lay at the Eye of 
that Vortex, - to cross the Flow of Time surrounding it, was I oblig'd to 
aim a bit upstream, or toward the Past, in order to maintain a radial course 
to the Center."<<

>>Consider the geometry of the vortex:  a  spiral line moving toward an 
>>ever-receding center, never touching.  This spiral becomes 3D, then 4D, 
>>because movement, time, is a component.  The vortex describes a space-time 
>>event in reverse, approaching the origin.<<

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