The Card Table

[Dave Monroe]

Excellent.  We miss this somehow?  Seems so, I hate to
admit.  Yet another invocation of Things to Come in
M&D.  Cf. that Jesuit Telegraph @ Ch. 28, p. 287 ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0201&msg=64440&sort=date

But reminds me of Judy Panetta's useful, less
anachronistic research ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59251&sort=date

And here's an interesting note on "sinusoidal" ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9807&msg=29018&sort=date

--- JTL <jtl at greennet.gl> wrote:
> 
> "...excepting a sinister and wonderful Card Table
> which exhibits the cheaper sinusoidal Grain known in
> the Trade as Wand'ring Heart, causing an illusion of
> Depth into which for years children had gaz'd as
> into the illustrated Pages of Books...along with so
> many hinges, sliding Mortices, hidden catches, and
> secret compartements that neither the Twins nor
> their Sister can say they had been to the end of
> it."
> 
> The "Card Table"  is a computer connected to the
> internet....

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