SLSL Low-Lands "convexity"

[Dave Monroe]

Cf. not only ...

"... let the world shrink to a boccie ball" (SL,
"L-l," p. 76)

But also ...

Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball ...

Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" (1681)

And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball ...

T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
(1915 [1911])

http://www-ec.njit.edu/~jrh7925/eliot/pruf-coy2.html

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/eliot1.html

And while we're at it ...


"Henry Adams, three generations before his own, had
stared aghast at Power; Callisto found himself now in
much the same state over Thermodynamics, the inner
life of that power, realizing like his predecessor
that the Virgin and the dynamo stand as much for love
as for power; that the two are indeed identical; and
that love therefore not only makes the world go round
but also makes the boccie ball spin, the nebula
precess." (SL, "Entropy," pp. 84-5)

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "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)
> 
> "In the larger sense, then, to journey anywhere, in
> this _Terra Concava_, is ever to ascend. With its
> Corollary,-- Outside, here upon  > the Convexity,--
> to go anywhere is ever to descend." (M&D, 740)

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