AtDDtA1: 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. ...

Weaving the Web

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

 "In Mexico City they somehow wandered into an exhibition of paintings
by the beautiful Spanish exile Remedios Varo: in the central paintings
of a triptych, titled 'Bordando el Manto Terrestre', were a number of
frail girls with heart-shaped faces, huge eyes, spun-gold hair,
prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of
tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking
hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and
creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were
contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world." (Lot 49,
Ch. 1, p. 21)

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