AtD, p 842 radial lines and apocalyptic wheels

[Michael Bailey]

and like AtD page 70
"Planted rows went turning past like giant spokes...."

and like AtD in at least one more railroad station (merde, can't
find the one i want)

and even perhaps in the math musem (633)
"between the
observer at the center of a panorama and the cylindrical wall on which
the scene was projected, lay a zone of dual nature....'So,' Gunther
declared, 'one is thrust
into the Cantorian paradise of the Mengenlehre, with one rather
sizable set of points in space being continuously replaced by another..."

it begins to look like one extended metaphor surfacing @ various points

----
while on the subject of math,
a) on page 567, Kit, looking for Umeki at another train station,
thinks, "The more she wasn't there, the more
she was.  Kit supposed there was something in the theory of
sets that covered this" --- could that something possibly be
that old set-of-all-sets-not-including-themselves chestnut?

b) library didn't have DeLillo's _Underworld_ so I took out
_Ratner's Star_ --- any good?

On 4/11/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> p. 842..lines passing radially one by one...singled up.....like the lines
> at the slaughter-house to "the killing floor"....Aren't radial lines in the
> opening of GR?
> "apocalyptic wheel' had begun to turn.....see Wheel(s) in Pynchon...GR....
> mandala (on GR wiki).......Wheel of Life......
>
> p. 842 'notional railway".....Aerenthal.......see
> http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos132.htm
>
>