AtDTdA (9): 242

[Jasper]

Tore Rye Andersen wrote:
> Boy, you're off to a great start, Jasper! Thanks for that wonderful 
> flurry of posts.
> I don't have the time right now for an extended reply to today's 
> "kick-ass essay question," but in lieu of a new essay, here's a link 
> to a previous post, where I tried to address at least some of your 
> railway questions:
>
> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0704&msg=117281&sort=author 
>
>
An excellent essay submission!  Fans of Thomas Pynchon should take 
note.  Compare also:

"The railroads seem to be the key. If one keeps looking at the map while 
walking slowly backward across the room, at a certain precise distance the 
structural principle leaps into visibility [...] and beyond that the 
teleology at work, as the rail system grows toward a certain shape, a 
destiny - My God I'm starting to sound like Werfner." (AtD, 689)


"The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang 
at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit 
card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern 
Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense 
of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate." (COL49, 24)