reading the poisson distribution again

[Terrance]

Malignd wrote:
> 
> <<Of course, Gravity's Rainbow could be the arc of
> trajectory of a ballistic missile.>>
> 
> It could also refer to the effect of gravity in the
> earth's drawing down- and inward the compositional
> elements of fossil fuels, the source, via coal tar and
> William Henry Perkin, of the first synthetic dyes.

Yes, it could. And, rocket fuel, and what "fueled" Man to build the
Bomb. 
And, the Future. Something Religious and Forbidden, Shrouded in Mystery.

The old mechanistic paradigm is folded up like a rule. Get a saw, a
hammer, a nail, 
but we've no blueprint with which to work. We don't even have a word for
it yet. 
But, it seems to evolve from the death of god, something theoretical and
cold. Is it Entropy? One of Their Entropies? Slothrop and Enzian are
cold. A cross with no resurrection?