C.17: aka Jack Degree

[charles albert]

Gradient can also apply to color, tone, hue........remember all that stuff
about lemniscates, Iris Acht looking in the mirror, etc., etc.......



Uh-oh.......



love,
cfa






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jasper Fidget" <jasper at hatguild.org>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:48 AM
Subject: RE: C.17: aka Jack Degree


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> > Behalf Of cfalbert
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:36 AM
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: Re: C.17: aka Jack Degree
> >
> > I should have emphasized the importance of "gradient".....
> >
> >
> > love,
> > cfa
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "cfalbert" <calbert at hslboxmaster.com>
> > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:21 AM
> > Subject: Re: C.17: aka Jack Degree
> >
> >
> > > Do not neglect the link back to Pope's extensive play on the word
> > > degree.....and the numerous definitions offered by Prof. Wood.....
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > love,
> > > cfa
> > >
> > >
>
> Yes, "gradient" has some good polyvalence too:
>
> "1. The degree of slope of a road, railway, etc.; amount of inclination to
> the horizontal.  b. An inclined part of a road etc.; a slope.
>
> 2. An increase or decrease in the magnitude of a property, e.g.
temperature,
> pressure, concentration, etc., observed in passing from one point to
> another; the rate of such a change." (OED)
>
> Shade is shot while he and Kinbote climb a gradient toward the garden.
>
> Also we learn somewhere that "grados" is Zemblan for tree.  I wonder how
> that plays back on the gardener, whom K meets tending the Shakespeare
trees
> at Wordsmith and who ultimately stops Gradus in the garden?
>
> Oh that too: the garden and the ravus rattlesnake for anyone looking
toward
> the biblical or Miltonic.
>
> I should have noted the parallel grey/gray too: Jacques de Grey and James
de
> Gray.
>
> And something else strange on pg 77: Gradus is raised by a "totally
> unrelated" Alsatian merchant also named Gradus.  What to make of this,
given
> we've been warned against coincidence in favor of a "web of sense"?
>
> Jasper
>
>