SLSL Low-Lands "convexity"

[pynchonoid]

"What he worried about was any eventual convexity, a
shrinking, it might be, of the planet itself to some
palpable curvature of whatever he would be standing
on, so that he would be left sticking out like a
projected radius, unsheltered and reeling across the
empty lunes of his tint sphere." (Low-Lands p. 66)


"[...] till at last debouching into an interior Lake
of great size, upside-down but perfectly secured to
its Lake-bed by Gravity as well as Centrifugal Foce,
and in which upside-down swimmers glide at perfect
ease, hanging over an Abyss thousands of miles deep.
>From wherever one is, to raise one's Eyes is to see
the land and Water rise ahead of one and behind as
well, higher and higher till lost in the Thickening of
the Atmosphere. . . . In the larger sense, then, to
journey anywhere, in this _Terra Concava_, is ever to
ascend. With its Corollary,-- Outside, here upon teh
Convexity,-- to go anywhere is ever to descend." (M&D,
740)

-Doug




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