a quasi-new topic re: GR: the title

[David Casseres]

I'm also inclined to think that the rainbow is a single symbol, the
arc of the rocket.  Yet there's a curious non-literalness: The
trajectory is notoriously a parabola, but a rainbow is perfectly
circular.  So a warping is suggested.

But there's a bit more, actually, in this physical metaphor.  The
rainbow is shaped by the Sun, the trajectory by the laws of free-fall
(the rocket is falling, first up then down, from Brennschluss to
impact).  So free fall, that most inevitable fact in the universe, is
being invoked (and I bet some cleverboots could come up with the fall
of Lucifer here).

And at the end of the rainbow, where it's invisible, is that pot of
gold, but at the end of the trajectory, all too visible, is
instantaneous immolation, giving poor Slothrop a hardon.

I wonder if a parabolic trajectory can be found from the beginning of
the book to the end.  We just saw a quartering diagram of parts 1-1
and 1-2, resembling that control switch for launching the A4....

On 11/7/05, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/6/05, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net > wrote:
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> > Finnegans Wake is better than the standard arc-of-the-rocket inspired
> > interpretation, but I'd prefer something more intuitive.
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>  Look, it's a book about a rocket. There's a lot of rocket science in it.
> There' quite a bit about "brenschluss" and the parabolic arc of the rocket
> after the power is cut and it is guided/powered by gravity. The
> rainbow-shaped arc of gravity. It's as simple as that.
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