V.V.2: "persistence of vision" (?)

[Dave Monroe]

... well, running into another o' them pagination problems here, as I
can't quite find that "persistence of vision" ref. mentioned here,
either @ p. 38 or @ p. 58 of my Harper Perennial ed. (and I DID ask
which one was going to be standard here--where's that promised [Kerry
Grant?] Companion to V. when you need it?), and, while I imagine that
this has since been addressed (I'm digesting it here these days), will
chip in that "persistence of vision" is the effect upon which that
much-vaunted "cinematic apparatus" ((c) Christian Metz et al.) depends
so that viewers will perceive those rapidly projected still, discrete
frames as continuous, moving images.  This is not necessarily the case
(see, handily, http://www.grand-illusions.com/percept.htm, as well as
references cited there), but it continues to be received wisdom on the
subject ...

I also imagine it has since been pointed that Gravity's Rainbow,
nonetheless, and in particular, makes no small reference to, use of,
said effect, whether or not it is how that cinematic "reality effect"
((c) Roland Barthes et al.) is produced.  Think Pokler and his
daughter(?) at Zwolfkinder, for example.  Or those "pornographies of
flight" (GR 567 [Viking ed., that is]),  that "pornographic" reassembly
Michael Berube identifies Pynchon's "pornographies" as, "a regressive
anamnesia that recreates illusory, prelapsarian (or preliguistic)
unities through a complex mechanism of dismemberment and
reconfiguration" (Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers, p. 248), which
Pynchon identifies precisely with the "dismemberment and
reconfiguration" of, say, the flight of a V-2 by, say, those Askania
cameras, or, for that matter, with the infinitesimal divisions and
integrations of (Leibnizian) calculus ...