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[David Morris]

>From: Don Corathers <crawdad at one.net>
>
>On page 35:
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>"If you look from the side at a planet swinging around in its orbit, split 
>the sun with a mirror and imagine a string, it all looks like a yo-yo."

It's never made sense to me either.  The mirror wold have to be 
perpendicular to the plane of orbit.  What one would see is two planets, 
real & mirror, moving away and then toward each other.  Then both would 
disappear as the real planet crossed the mirror.  I guess Pynchon just had 
to get a mirror in the image somehow, but the picture would have been more 
yo-yo-like w/o it.

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