"The oil towers stand sentinel, bone-empty, in the dark"

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

> "The oil towers stand sentinel, bone-empty, in the
> dark [....] Time for retrospection here, for refining
> the recent history thaa's being pumped up fetid and
> black from other strata of Earth's mind. . . ."
> (Gravity's Rainbow, 354)

Yet another chance  to work that "tower/tree" trope that Pynchon 
picked up from the ancient  tragedies.........Took a long time to 
figure out how they related........

love,
cfa