poisson distribution

[Terrance]

> 3. The mention of a Poisson distribution stood sore thumbwise
> in my reading of GR because it is counterintuitive to a naive
> view. I think the text does state that some characters supposed
> the V2 location impacts were meaningful but I don't believe
> that the text misleads the reader in expecting this.


Slothrop's love affairs coincide point for point with the rocket strikes
in            London. So how do we deal with this? Is there 
cause-and-effect at work or not? If so is there some precognition, that
is, does Slothrop know (even somewhere deep in his unconscious) where
the rockets will hit?  Is there some psychokinesis involved, some
magic...is Slothrop one of the gifted, the freaks? Both patterns conform
to a Poisson distribution. The poisson distribution, as Mexico explains
it, is a  perfect randomness where  each point is ideally independent of
any other. 


See Jose Liste Noya's "Mapping The 'Unmappable: Inhabiting
  The Fantastic Interface Of Gravity's Rainbow"

See Brian Stonehill, "Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The Real World inside
Gravity's Rainbow, in his The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction
from
Joyce to Pynchon, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988, pp. 141-56.

And/Or see   Thomas Moore's *The Style Of
  Connectedness* 1987, identifies a "common critical practice
  [that has grouped] Pynchon with those "reflexivist"
  contemporary novelists whose chief concern is with what is
  felt to be the inherently involuted, self-referential nature
  of language itself."