Sympathetic Magic & Cybernetics

[Dave Monroe]

Note, however, the idealization involved in that
circularity.  In practice, in ballistics, for example,
what goes up does so from some point, and, when it
comes down, comes down at some point as well.  That
too, too solid earth, that real materiality.  Unless,
of course, one surpasses escape velocity, but then
you're not talking a circle anymore ...

--- Mark David Tristan Brenchley
<mdtb at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> The point about Gravity's Rainbow, I thought, is
> that it describes a circle (much as the book with
> its linked first and last line of the book can be
> described as a parabola that describes a circle in 
> time), thus avoiding the trap of linearity (a circle
> eventually comes to have no end and no beginning).
> Sort of a Rilkean idea of Transcendence, I guess.
> maybe.

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