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

[Jeremy Osner]

The windmill mandala links up to the rocket cross which appears a few
pages later.
The rocket creates its own wind -- "wind" is a misnomer when we speak
about the wind
blowing across the rocket's hull; but how is "'wind'... a middle term"
when talking
about windmills? or to "all wind, everywhere on earth? What really moves
the cross?
Pirate's more or less hijacked airplane is an avatar of the 00000.

two questions that seem germane here: on 624, Pirate is flying above
"villages
abandoned during the Great Dying" -- would these have been actual,
physical
abandoned villages, or ghosts? -- It's amazing to me that abandoned
villages could
have remained intact over the hundreds of years from the onset of the
black death to
the end of WWII. And, is the "soprano voice sing[ing] notes that never
arrange
themselves into a melody", another personification of Pirate's motor? --
which was,
remember, characterized as a racist kazoo player in Slothrop's dream on
619.

Jeremy