ATD SP0ILER pp. 182-183

[Anville Azote]

On 12/1/06, Joe Varo <vjvaro at verizon.net> wrote:
>  Cyclopropane --
>  At first I thought that this was just something the TP made up.  But just
> for the hell of it I looked it up and found that it is an explosive with
> anaesthetic properties, or vice versa.
>

There's a darkly comic scene hinging on this property in the first
episode of James Burke's series **Connections** (1978), wherein the
Great Northeastern Blackout strikes just when a woman is giving birth
to twins --- under cyclopropane anaesthesia.  In the darkness, a nurse
walks into the room with a lighted candle. . . .

>
>  Also, I don't see where anyone has noted the following, regarding
> cyclomite, from page 185:
>
>  "From then on, whenever a dynamite blast went off, even far away out of
> earshot, something concurrent was triggered somewhere in Lew's
> consciousness...after awhile even if one was only about [italics in
> original] to go off.  Anywhere."
>
>  Am I missing something or reading too much into it?  Or does this make
> cyclomite akin to another pynchonian compound?
>

Looks like you've singled up another line!

-A. A.