Help!
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 10:26:05 CST 2007
This geometry doesn't only imply a circle-completion underneath the
horizon. It is probably more accurately a sine-wave. There is a
reference to the "Kilroy was here" cartoon in another part of the book
- Kilroy's eyes and nose are sine-waves.
David Morris
On 1/21/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe this one?
>
> "But remember if you loved it. If you did, how you loved it. And how
> much—after all you're used to asking "how much," used to measuring, to
> comparing measurements, putting them into equations to find out how much
> more, how much of, how much when . . . and here in your common drive to the
> sea feel as much as you wish of that dark double-minded love which is also
> shame, bravado, engineers' geopolitics—"spheres of influence" modified to
> toruses of Rocket range that are parabolic in section . . .
> . . . not, as we might imagine, bounded below by the line of the Earth it
> "rises from" and the Earth it "strikes" No But Then You Never Really Thought
> It Was Did You Of Course It Begins Infinitely Below The Earth And Goes On
> Infinitely Back Into The Earth it's only the peak that we are allowed to
> see, the break up through the surface, out of the other silent world,
> violently (a jet airplane crashing into faster-than-sound, some years later
> a spaceship crashing into faster-than-light) Remember The Password In The
> Zone This Week Is FASTER—THAN, THE-SPEEDOFLIGHT Speeding Up Your
> Voice Exponentially—Linear Exceptions Made Only In Case of Upper Respiratory
> Complaints, at each "end," understand, a very large transfer of energy:
> breaking upward into this world, a controlled burning—breaking downward
> again, an uncontrolled explosion . . . this lack of symmetry leads to
> speculating that a presence, analogous to the Aether, flows through time, as
> the Aether flows through space. The assumption of a Vacuum in time tended to
> cut us off one from another. But an Aether sea to bear us world-to-world
> might bring us back a continuity, show us a kinder universe, more easygoing.
> . . ."
>
>
>
> >From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Help!
> >Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:54:22 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >Passage from GR about rainbows ultimately being not
> >parabolas, but circles. Need, can't find. Help!
> >
> >
> >
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