AtD 146 lines /p.821-spoiler

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Is it just me, or doesn't Pynchon in fact use the phrase to "single up all 
lines"  in connection with ARRIVING in Philadelphia in M&D, and thus with a 
reduction of possibilities as opposed to an expansion?:

".... the final Approach was like being reach'd out to, the Wind baffl'd, a 
slow embrace of Brickwork, as the Town came to swallow one by one their 
Oceanick Degrees of freedom,- once as many as a Compass box'd, and now, as 
they single up all lines, as they secure from Sea-Detail, as they come to 
rest, none" (M&D, 258)

- but two pages later in connection with leaving, once again:

"...stumble back to the Ship, single up all lines, out once again into 
certain Danger" (M&D, 260)

Now I'm confused!

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