Page 485, per our host...TRP layers so much onto one word: "wheeled"

[Mark Kohut]

wheeled
TRP throws off this trope--of lengthening days and repeating seasons-- with resonances elsewhere in his work and which seems to be a key metaphor in his vision. "Wheeled" as in the 'Wheel of Time', a notion regarding the cyclical nature of time and history originating in Buddhism and Hinduism? Wheel of Time
The wheel metaphor is used more than once in Gravity's Rainbow [citations needed] and, maybe, in Vineland?
One can only point to the manifold notions of Time and History in Against the Day to start finding connections.
The later similar notion of "Eternal Return", made famous by Eliade and Nietzsche, appear in Against the Day. [citations needed]
Further, in TRP's way of alluding to, yet also 'playing with' a concept satirically, one might point to the Ferris Wheel motif in Against the Day and maybe even the windmill in Gravity's Rainbow as extensions of 'wheeled' as metaphor in TRP's work.

       
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