Rainbow & Parabola (was NP)

[Ghetta Life]

This ,below, is the best answer yet!

God's Rainbow versus Gravity's Rainbow.  The parabola is also a part of a 
sine wave when it passes beyond the zero, so it doesn't stop at the horizon 
but continues underground to then re-emerge.  It is the Kilroy figure.  As 
such it is similar to a circular path in that it continues and repeats, a 
kind of return.  And if it were to continue around the horizon from the 
perspective of a single viewer it would form a circle.  Pynchon obviously 
loves these geometric analogies.

Ghetta

>From: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>
>
>The rainbow, symbol of God's Covenant with Noah and his children and
>with the innocent of the age to come, is some segment of a circle, but
>a circle none the less --- perfect, abstract, and otherworldly --- and
>being circular holds within it the promise of return, a turning of time
>about the fixed central origin which is God.
>
>It is also luminous and pretty.
>
>"Gravity's rainbow", the parabola, is NOT a section of a circle. It is
>perverse, difficult to draw and comprehend; of a constantly changing
>rate of change to its slope; defining no center point, only an eternal
>succession of unique  and lonely tangents all looking past one another,
>shifty-eyed, tied to no certain divine center. It is an open figure ---
>perfect, abstract, and yet bound to the physical laws of the real world
>--- and being an open figure holds within it a harsh denial of the
>possibility of return. Not cyclical time in a devinely ordained scheme,
>but linear time, who's arrow points into the screaming wind of chaos
>and darkness. It is symbolic of the Diety's abandonment of the world.

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