Re M & D and ATD, thematic homage, parallels, etc.

[Monte Davis]

Mark Kohut wrote:

> '''You can get above it.... above Distance, above Time itself'''<br>
> a foreshadowing of an overarching thematic plotline of ATD, the Chums 
> of Chance throughline?  Notice the line about apprehending "all at 
> once the plexity of possible journeys", which seems to be a clue to 
> some meanings of ATD thru the Chums.

What you said. Dead on, and bears repeating.

Tore, Ya Sam -- didn't one of you raise a question about a plexity of 
trees last winter?

The premise of _Jack of Eagles_, a 1950s SF novel, is the ability to 
jump among alternate timelines -- likened, if memory serves, to strips 
of move film, neatly stacked with frames aligned -- and then ever so 
slightly offset.

In GR, Pynchon took pains to show us the edit points; in AtD, we're in 
the edit suite with a dozen possibilities hanging by clothespins in 
front of our faces. Then he turns on the fan.