VLVL(5) Vocabulary

[jbor]

> From Toby:
>> Pynchon describes the Dark Ocean Hotel as being
>> "a towering dihedral wallful of 2,048 rooms with identical lanais
>> cantilevered into blue space, all facing the Pacific."
>> 
>> "dihedral" is defined as "relating to, having or forming a dihedral
>> angle." "dihedral angle" is defined as "the angle formed by two
>> intersecting planes.  In other words if you looked at the Hotel from
>> above it would resemble the letter X. Four thin wings with all "outside"
>> rooms.

on 11/9/03 6:33 AM, Mike Weaver wrote:

> Which would give 1024 rooms per plane which is the number of bytes in a
> kilobyte being 2 to the power of 10.
> 
> To paraphrase Terrance - why?

X marks the spot, of course.

Zoyd sure comes off as a whiny, sarcastic bastard in that scene.

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