reading the poisson distribution again

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on 2/4/03 7:23 AM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

 
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> Gravity's Rainbow?
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> 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)
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Of course, Gravity's Rainbow could be the arc of trajectory of a ballistic
missile.