AC

[David Morris]

That looks alot like Adams' dynamo:

>From Entropy:

Henry Adams, three generations before his own, had stared aghast at
Power; Callisto found himself now in much the same state over
Thermodynamics, the inner life of that power, realizing like his
predecessor that the Virgin and the dynamo stand as much for love as
for power; that the two are indeed identical; and that love therefore
not only makes the world go round but also makes the boccie ball spin,
the nebula precess. (pp.84-85)


On 8/16/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> Anyway, I show him about "Against The Day", and how I've been thinking of anarchy being the big backstory in all of Pynchon's novels, he sees "Chicago World's Fair, 1893", and the first word out of his mouth is "Haymarket". I looked that up, and he's wrong about that (1886), but typing in "Chicago World's Fair 1893" got me:
>
> but http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla/chicago.htm
>
> which is very interesting, as Tesla is on the author's itinerary and AC means so very much to us all.
>