MDDM Ch. 21 Notes, Octogon Chapel

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[213.5 "Met this Herschel fella at the Octagon Chapel" Herschel, as we know,
 was the one who officially discovered Uranus. He visited England in 1755 as
 oboist in the Hanoverian Guards band; in 1766 he became an organist and
 music teacher at Bath.

 It's interesting how the themes and topics (Uranus, the Orrery, the Gothic
 novel, Drury Lane operas ... America) of Pynchon's narrative are now winding
 backwards towards the opening of the section. The structure of the narrative
 is like a hinged mirror: MDDM.]
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Yes, I think you're on the right track here, especially with
the implied notion that besides any cause and effect relationship
the past and the present are conjoined by some sort of timeless
or ex-temporal symmetry, that constrains somehow just how
much of the present is effected by the past, and how much is
random and unpredictable, yet connected, not by determinism
but by symmetry- or beauty, if you will.

A slender filament, perhaps, but enough somehow to guide us
back, through the web of connections between any now and any then.

It's where to place the "hinge" that seems problematic.