Sympathetic Magic & Cybernetics

[Mark David Tristan Brenchley]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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 ...

	Right, which is where the whole Rilkian notion of transcendence by
pushing yourself down into yourself (with the result that, somehow, you
will eventually surge up and reach transcendence). The point about gravity
is that it makes the rainbow circle the globe.
Mark

> 
> --- 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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