GRGR meta / 1,3 various

[Glenn Scheper]

> one's divination of Pynchon's intent / one's own reaction to the words

In the last GRGR, I barely opened the book, read here and there,
in the conceit of a privleged reader, having recovered the author
as a fellow of autofellatio praxis and its meditative correlates.

Now, listening to each section over and over, trying to absorb
each as a little scene, I am impressed with vivid being-there,
as for example, mention of Jessica's breasts bobbing reminds me
of the very male perspective of girl-watching, like when I and
a co-worker are out smoking, and stop to note any passing women.
And "old ladies who have a special place in their night-thoughts
for the Fire Service no please you 're not going to use that
great Hose on me ..." takes me to such female intersubjectivity
that I had never imagined, makes me wonder at Pynchon's penses.


> sine wave ... oscillation

I'm going to conentrate on that. In fact, I feel a large post coming.


> the spiral notion, ... DNA connection ... Slinky

Spirals as growth and self-similarity? But I presume you meant helix.
It is an important part of my "Tantric Cernunnos Anecdote" described
in my website oldword.htm link, and like the egyptian rebirth imagery.

I once had a budding insight about the discrete quantization of time,
but haven't thought on it since, using the idea e raised to i pi = -1;
(that is, imaginary exponents represent rotation about the origin in
the complex number plane), how that a continuous function of time in
the imaginary exponent, crosses the "real" axis as countable events.
(Perhaps the source of integers? I know I terribly mixed metaphors.)

The reversing slinky reminds me of Gray encoding, wherein sequences
of states described by bits only change by one bit per state change.
They keep reversing the order of each group defined on 1 to N bits
when adding the next MSB. I sometimes invoke that idea when trying
to unscramble the seven (which are of eight) parts of Revelation.


> (white, red, black, and GREEN),
> you can get a rainbow out of those, can't you?

Jesus! Maybe you can get anything out of anything.
But my inclination is to deny that rainbow idea.

I left high school physics with an erroneous notion
that somehow a red photon joins with a green photon
to make a yellow photon. But colors are in the eyes!
Each photon has its frequency, but it is the swarm
of many photons, and the relative distribution of
all these photons' energies (frequencies) that the
eye, and the mind, interprets as color.

The three types of cones in the eye have a certain
frequency response curve, and it is amazing that
all three curves look very similar, sort of like
bell curves, with a great response at the center
of the visible spectrum, and only a very slight
difference of their three shapes. Nerves take the
differences of response to impute a color meaning.

When something heats up, it starts dark, black,
and as it heats it glows red. Red is at the lower
energy end of the spectrum. As it continues to
heat, it adds more of the higher energy output,
until it gets white hot - a uniform distribution
across the visible spectrum. (I hope my intuitive
science insight is right--I would not mislead you.)

T.V. is a big fake, as is full-color printing, and
scientifically matched color from the paint store.
Since the eye only has three nervous "channels" to
describe any color, these technologies produce a
mix of light that will trick the eye's response,
in its only three-fold vector, to appear like any
other color TO OUR EYES.

Colors strike me as important in the bible. There
are the green pastures, the Great Whore's scarlet.

Now the eye's response going up the spectrum are:
(all hues of the rainbow, but:) red, green, blue.
Black-body radiation cannot shine blue, but only
white, then blue arises by taking away red+green.

If you google (images) for topic: CIE color space,
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=CIE%20color%20space&spell=1&sa=N&tab=wi
You will see how a linear dimension of wavelength
is wrapped around the top of somewhat a horseshoe,
to make a two-axis representation of color (while
a third axis perpendicular is (what, illumination
or saturation?), from dark/black to bright/white.

The bottom straight line interests me immensely.
It connects two opposite extremes of wavelength.
There ARE NO purple photons! The colors crimson
and scarlet are eye responses to simulataneous
low and high wavelength energy. Interesting, no?


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
Copyleft(!) Forward freely.