AtdTDA: [38] pgs, 1082/1084 A vector passing through the invisible

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Who is Lord Overlunch, anyway? Awfully omniscient, don't you think?
Somehow, the Lord knows of Kit's troubles. Somehow the Lord is
getting Kit and Dally back together. Lord Overlunch points Kit 
towards the Chez Rosalie and to Dally. Pynchon is presenting
an anarchist's dream of post-war Paris:     

         May we imagine for them a vector, passing through 
         the invisible, the "imaginary," the unimaginable. . . .

The sort of language applicable to a math/physics scenario, or
in this case, the purest of fictions.

And so Kit and Dally get back together, after Kit's seduction into the 
futurist nightmare. Pynchon creates a fictional—invisible, imaginary, 
unimaginable—place, an idealized post-war Paris, unconcerned 
with how the trains are running. The music's for dancing, not marching.
There is still dark enough for visions there. That phrase:
 
         no longer to be broken into by light displaced from Hell,. . . .

. . . .points back to numerous events in the book, most recently that 
little family excursion to the Cambio.

         A vector through the night into a morning of hosed 
         pavements, birds heard everywhere but unseen, 
         bakery smells, filtered green light, a courtyard still in shade ... 

A slower world, where the rhythms of night and day still rule. 
This passage on  "the juggernaut of modernity" is taken from the 
AtD wiki and is relevant:

         A leading sociologist, Anthony Giddens, is also responsible 
         for the phrase, "the juggernaut of modernity". See this          
         incredibly relevant definition and analysis of this phrase: 
         "The most defining property of modernity, according to 
         Giddens, is that we are disembedded from time and space. 
         In pre-modern societies, space was the area in which one 
         moved, time was the experience one had while moving. 
         In modern societies, however, the social space is no longer 
         confined by the boundaries set by the space in which one 
         moves. One can now imagine what other spaces look like, 
         even if he has never been there. In this regard, Giddens 
         talks about virtual space and virtual time. Another distinctive 
         property of modernity lies in the field of knowledge. In 
         pre-modern societies, it were the elders who possessed the 
         knowledge: they were definable in time and space. In modern 
         societies we must rely on expert systems. These are not 
         present in time and space, but we must trust them. Even if 
         we trust them, we know that something could go wrong: there's 
         always a risk we have to take. Also the technologies which we 
         use, and which transform constraints into means, hold risks. 
         Consequently, there is always a heightened sense of uncertainty 
         in contemporary societies. It is also in this regard that Giddens 
         uses the image of a 'juggernaut': modernity is said to be like 
         an unsteerable juggernaut traveling through space." 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Giddens

           . . . .both ship and dockage hurtling at speeds that no one wishes 
           to imagine, invisible sources of gravity rolling through like storms, 
           making it possible to fall for distances only astronomers are 
           comfortable with. . . .
            AtD, 1084