reading the poisson distribution again

[Terrance]

I'm not sure anymore. You think you have understood a certain theme, a
leitmotiv, if you don't mind, but when you listen to it again, you hear
something new, something contradicting your previous reading or
listening ... you read/listen again ... ah, paradoxical dislocations in
the Tao. 

leitmotiv: Music. A melodic passage or phrase, especially in Wagnerian
opera, associated with a specific character, situation, or element. 2. A
dominant and recurring theme, as in a novel.

And one such, is the distribution of the rockets. 

                    

Gravity's Rainbow? 

The title of Gravity's Rainbow itself proclaims the novel's paradox, in
that gravity
and rainbows are antithetic phenomena. Gravity pulls mass, while the
rainbow has
no mass. The rainbow is visible but intangible, gravity tangible but
invisible. Only in
the title of Pynchon's novel does the rainbow "belong" to gravity; for,
like its title,
the whole novel yokes contraries, embraces contradictions, propounds
paradox. 
           Brian Stonehill, Paradoxical Pynchon;(pp.  144-45) 




  The leitmotiv is the technique employed to preserve the inward unity
and
  abiding presentness of the whole at each moment...and thus seeks to
abrogate
  time itself by means of the technical device that attempt to give
complete
  presentness to any given moment to the entire world of ideas that it
  comprises...its aim is always and consistently to BE that of which it
speaks.

  Mann, in fact, suggests that we should read the novel twice: 

"That is why I   make my presumptuous plea to my readers to read the
book twice. Only so can one really penetrate and enjoy its musical
association of ideas. The first time,
the reader learns the thematic material; he is then in a position to
read the
symbolic and allusive formulas both forwards and backwards."
 

 "[it] portrays the fascination of the death idea, the triumph of
drunken
 disorder over the forces of life consecrated to rule and
discipline.                                    -Mann- (as critic of his
own work)



"[it] portrays the fascination of the death idea, the triumph of drunken
 disorder over the forces of [DEATH with a capital D in GR] consecrated
to rule and discipline.