Oblate

[David Morris]

>From: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>
>
>--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >A pregnant woman presents a prolate form, [...].
> > >A *fat* person will tend to the oblate, like the Michelin Man.
> > OK, but Dixon's belly is transitioning between the two "one day to
> > the next" which causes his observers "alarm."  I don't think his
>>merely getting fat would be a cause for alarm, do you?
>
>Oh I don't know... My torso was, admittedly, getting larger -- but
>remaining safely prolate with a vertical axis. Then one day, real
>sudden-like -- damn if I wasn't oblate. Karin was "alarmed", but the
>rabbit lived. My doctor said it was the three pints of B&J's Chunky
>Monkey I was consuming every week and gave me a spanking.

Yeah, and not to get too serious about this text, but, "one day to the next" 
implies a switching back and forth from vertical to horizontal.  Otherwise a 
*gradual* transition would have been implied.  Or maybe Pynchon just aint 
that precise with his words.  However, I will concede that his belly is 
nonviolent, so far...

I think a baby is precisely the implication.  I think Terrance has hit 
paydirt.

David Morris

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