VLVL2(4)(mm) The Zen of Pizza

[Dave Monroe]

mandala
the ancient sun-wheel from which. . .the swastika was
broken" 100; "full mandalas came to bloom" 152; Herero
villages built like mandalas, 321; mandala-like
Schwarzkommando insignia, illustrated, 361; KEZVH,
446; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket,
563; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "fatal mandala"
691; discussed at Gross Suckling Conference, 706-07;
"the cross the man has made on his own circle of
earth" 719; Raketen-Stadt: "built in mandalic form
like a Herero village" 725

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/m.html

"Weisenburger remarks in A Gravity's Rainbow Companion
that the book 'unfolds according to a carefully drawn
design. Gravity's Rainbow is not arch-shaped, as is
commonly supposed. It is plotted like a mandala, its
quadrants marked by Christian feast days....'"

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_granalysis.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_gressay.html

Weisenburger, Steven.  A Gravity's Rainbow Companion:
   Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel.
   Athens: U of Georgia P, 1988.

http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/books/shelf/0820310263.html

"Although I respect Mr. Weisenburger's opinion, I see
the shape as being more of a synthesis of the parabola
and the mandala. I see the book being, indeed,
circular in design -- but parabolic in manifestation."

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_gressay.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_granalysis.html

Hayles, N. Katherine.  "Fractured Mandala: The
   Inescapable Ambiguities of Gravity's Rainbow."
   Rev. of A Gravity's Rainbow Companion.  Pynchon
   Notes 24-25 (1989): 129-32.

http://w3.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pncumbib.html#H

"A Companion's Companion: Illustrated Additions and
Corrections to Steven Weisenburger’s A Gravity’s
Rainbow Companion"

http://www.english.mankato.msus.edu/larsson/grnotes.html

--- "Vincent A. Maeder" <vmaeder at cycn-phx.com> wrote:
> 
> Notice how, in this article, the mandala's circular
> shape could be taken as a pizza, or the pizzas of
> Bodhi Dharma Pizza could be taken as mandalas....

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