Atd : page 542---starts on page 524.Big Ass Spoiler

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

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From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
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> >That is, because of all the interrupting material, noting this passage
> >---on page 542, that is to say, exactly in the middle of the novel and 
> >spelling something out in a most specific way---well, with all that
> >smoke and mirrors, it's so easy to get off track at this node in the Novel:
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> If you're looking for Tristero in this quote, I DO believe you're wrong. 
> You've previosuly said that Tristero is hidden in plain sight all over AtD, 
> but frankly, having read the novel thoroughly, I'm not sure I agree. There 
> are inverted stamps, sure, but a single anarchist's use of inverted stamps 
> does not a Tristero make. Neither does the covert gas communication network, 
> or even the odd occurence of the name Gennaro. There might be a deliberate 
> Echo (!) or two here to Lot 49, we can certainly agree on that, but the 
> references to Pynchon's other novels are much more frequent and obvious, and 
> I have a hard time believing that Pynchon would encrypt AtD so as to give 
> Tristero a central yet hidden role - much less place it at the very center 
> of the novel. You seem to have looked so hard for Tristero in this novel 
> that you have found it - even hiding in a city name like Trieste, which 
> apart from a slight similarity in spelling has nothing to do with the 
> Tristero (the city isn't even mentioned in Lot 49). And why would Pynchon 
> place the novel/story he has disparaged so often in the very center of AtD? 
> And why not name Tristero aloud if he wished it to play a part in the novel? 
> He certainly didn't have any qualms with this in Lot 49, and it doesn't make 
> any sense that he should encrypt it into AtD.
> Are the muted posthorns real or imagined in AtD? I think they're mostly 
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> Best,
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> Tore




I suppose I should be grateful, after all---you did tell me I'm wrong, and
i did ask someone to tell me just that.

On the other hand, in case you missed this from "Monte Davis":

"Nahh... The word "pivotal" at the exact center of a book crammed with
doublings, twinnings, dual refractions, opposed forces? Sharing the page
with "many axes" and a mirror dance in the cheval glass?

Purely accidental -- bet on it."

beyond that, none of you took note of:

" A mathmatical paper by the Englishman Edmund 
Whittaker which few here could make sense of was said to be 
pivotal. Woevre had noticed how the the convention-goers kept 
giving one another these looks. "

Looking up Edmund Whittaker (in the context of Einstein) on 
Google led to:

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath571/kmath571.htm

http://home.comcast.net/~xtxinc/prioritymyth.htm

What I noticed---my "A-Ha" moment--- was at this site, the first to come 
up on Google:

http://base.google.com/base/a/1362126/D5004974785414384308

"Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & 
Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730, by 
Sir Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Albert Einstein, 
Sir Edmund Whittaker"

Sir Edmund seems to be a connective link to the explosive
potential held within matter as it turns into the state of light 
itself. He is responsible, along with Einstein, for an introduction
to Newton's thoughts on light: "Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, 
Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light", and seems to be a major 
(unwitting) player in the development of The Bomb. That's what strikes 
me as the import of:

"     And what, furthermore, to make of this late rumor, drifting just 
below Woeve's ability to aquire the signal at all clearly---an 
undentifiable noise in the night that sends a sleeper awake with 
hearts pounding and and entrails hollow---intelligence of a 
Quaternionic Wepon, a means to unloose upon the world energies 
hitherto unimangined---hidden, de Decker would say "innocently," 
inside the w term."

So there's a major connector to GR right there. Along with any
number of other worlds I may or may not be projecting. And again,
I point to the stamp on the cover of the book and Kit popping into
Lord Overlunch's hotel room in Paris on page 1081. 

I know this might seem weird/obsessive/trainspotting but I'm
curious where the exact center of AtD might be located.