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[Joe Allonby]

Yeah, I thought that sounded a lot like a description of the "gravity's
rainbow" of a ballistic missile in flight.

Same thing in the description of the Webb family 4th of July.


On 11/23/06, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> O, I agree with the harkening.  And I love the subtle little jab at all
> the
> "critics" of GR's "incomprehensibility":
>
> [...] Miles bade the company consider, in tones of urgency they seldom
> heard
> from him, the nature of a skyrocket's ascent, in particular that unseen
> extension of the visible trail, after the propellant charge burns out, yet
> before the slow-match has ignited the display -- that implied moment of
> ongoing passage upward, in the dark sky, a linear continuum of points
> invisible yet present, just before lights by the hundreds appear --
>
> "Stop, stop!" Darby clutching his ears comically, "it sounds like
> Chinese!"
> (p. 112)
>
>
> heheheh   Beautifully written ... and amusing!
>
>
>
>
> >I have noticed that AtD, in particular, seems to harken back to past
> > books much more than any of his other works.  [...]
>
>
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