AtD 456-7 Spoiler (?)

[Dave Monroe]

   "'Yes, it continues to puzzle me,' Roswell agreed,
'this irrational worship of the Geneva movement, and
the whole idea of a movie projector being built like a
clock--as if there could be no other way.  Watches and
clocks are fine, don't mistake my meaning, but they
are a sort of acknowledgement of failure, they're
there to glorify and celebrate one particular sort of
time, the tickwise passage of time in one direction
only and no going back...." (AtD, Pt. III, p. 456-7)


Cf., e.g., ...

"There has been this strange connection between the
German mind and the rapid flashing of successive
stills to counterfeit movement, for at least two
centuries-–since Leibniz, in the process of inventing
calculus, used the same approach to break up the
trajectory of cannonballs through the air." (GR, Pt.
III, p. 407)

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/gr40.htm

http://themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/407.htm

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