Pynchon's titles (was ...

[Dave Monroe]

"... 'spheres of influence' modified to toruses of
Rocket range that are parabolic in section ...
   "... not, as we might imagine, bounded below by the
line of the Earth it 'rises from' and the Earth it
'strikes' No But Then You Never Really Thought It Was
Did You Of Course It Begins Infinitely Below The Earth
And Goes On Infinitely Back Into The Earth it's only
the peak that we are allowed to see, the break up
through the surface, out of the other silent world,
violently ..." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 726)


Parabolas

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Parabola.html

http://www.xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/Parabola_dir/parabola.html

Rainbows

http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/rainbows/bows.htm

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/rbowpri.html#c0

The Parabola of Madathanus

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/parabola.html

Paraboloids

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/parabola.html

Gravity's Rainbow?

Why isn't it called "Mindless Pleasures" or one of the
myriad other working titles (none of which I can
remember, but they're hilarious and I just looked for
an hour and can't for the life of me remember where I
saw them all) it possessed prior to its settling on
that perfect title. One interpretation that "gravity's
rainbow" is the parabola described by the rocket's
trajectory from launch to hit, as the projectile
gradually loses its battle with gravity and is finally
pulled back to earth following Brennschluss. This
interpretation is reinforced by the original
hard-cover editions of Gravity's Rainbow, which have a
parabola intaglioed into the front cover. But! There
are, as usual, many ways to skin this cat, to wit ...

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/gr-what.html

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> The mathematical parable has no "end(s)".
> 
> In the fairytale world at the end of a rainbow
> you'll find a big treasure.

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