AtDDtA1: It Just Got Tangled Up

[Dave Monroe]

   "'Say, it just got tangled up, Professor,' declared Miles, plucking
ineffectually at the coils of hemp, which only grew more snarled as
his efforts continued."  (AtD, Pt I, Ch. 2, p. 11)


Cf. ...

"No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting
into-- ...."  (GR, Pt. I, p. 3)

Et al. ...

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/weaving.html