Solar Mirror Yo-Yo ...

[Dave Monroe]

Digging deep into the archives for the subject here,
but the mention of David Hilbert (now THAT sounds like
a hell of a novel ...) in that German radio interview
rang a teeny, tiny little bell.  The bell rang rather
more loudly for one Scot Free Kennedy here,
fortunately.  On "state space decomposition" (which
sounds rather Pynchonian in and of itself, no?)  ...

"Thomas Pynchon supplies us with a further example of 
this in his book 'V.'. If we imagine that we are
looking at the rotation of the Earth about the Sun
from a point in the plane of the ecliptic, from far
enough away that depth information is lost, we would
observe the rotation as motion in a one dimensional
space. We have projected the two-dimensional system of
the Earth's rotation  onto a one-dimensional
subspace--the line crossing through the center of the
sun perpendicular to the line of our observation. Note
that when we talk about these projections, we're
generally talking about the relationship with the
observer--we're not changing the system at all, just
how we're looking at it."

http://www.asis.com/~scotfree/cgi/latex2html/lab/kalm/node5.html

Also read something suggestive here in a Roland
Barthes essay on Alain Robbe-Grillet (I just read it
in an old Grove Press ed. of Jealousy, but I recall
that it's made the rounds) which even uses the phrase
(in trans., at least) "mirror-time," but I don't have
it at hand, so ...

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