Sontag, "Happenings"

[Jane Sweet]

Richard Fiero wrote:
> 
> I cite for example the recurring faulty notion of splitting the sun
> with a mirror so that a planetary half-revolution is doubled in the
> mirror. Of course it is faulty. It doesn't work. So what? 

It works just fine for me. Perhaps this is because I tend to
credit Pynchon with more imaginative and less scientific
accuracy? There are lots of Yo-Yo images in the book, this
one, I think, is no more nor less important than any of the
others.