Rainbow & Parabola (was NP)

[Terrance]

"But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola.
They must have guessed, once or twice--guessed and refused to
believe--that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward
that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no
second chances, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved
for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the        
Rainbow, and they its children...."

GR.209