AtDTDA [38] p. 1084/1085: Bending Light, Creating Invisibility
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 10 12:28:03 CDT 2008
Must say, another great post which is blooming like a flower in my cranial
capacity.
Love that hyper-hyperboloid.
What are some of the meanings of the Chums' new life, new Sky Ship? Somewhere above Earth and Counter-Earth?....Why will the children have to make their lives on the Earth?........
Is this the time between the Wars?...The interrregnum, when one can, sometime, live 'in the day'?.....when THE WHOLE WORLD is not in a State of Seige?........................
Have the Chums learned that the world-cycle is always like this?.....(since they--at leaset Miles--can see the future in the beginning? via hyper-hyperboloid?)......
Will the Chums and Chumettes' kids have to live on the Earth because the skies will very soon be full of "screaming" planes and bombs?...Is TRP foretelling Gravity's Rainbow here?......
--- On Sun, 8/10/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: AtDTDA [38] p. 1084/1085: Bending Light, Creating Invisibility
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 10:14 AM
> Mark Kohut Points to :
>
> Underlying the work is the idea that bending
> visible light
> around an object will hide it.
>
> Xiang Zhang, the leader of the researchers, said:
> “In the
> case of invisibility cloaks or shields, the
> material would need
> to curve light waves completely around the object
> like a river
> flowing around a rock.” An observer looking at
> the cloaked
> object would then see light from behind it –
> making it seem
> to disappear.
>
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4494440.ece
>
> . . . .when people on the ground see it in the
> sky, they
> are struck with selective hysterical blindness
> and end
> up not seeing it at all.
> Against the Day, p. 1084
>
> From "PYNCHON'S INVISIBILITY" by Theresa
> Duncan
>
> Pynchon's disappearance then, is nearly as
> great
> an act of generosity as the wonder-books he
> himself
> writes. Like the Hebrew moment of Tsim Tsum where
>
> God first withdrew from the universe in order to
> make
> room for his creation the universe, Pynchon's
> withdrawal
> means that we get that much more mental real
> estate.
> You know that feeling?
>
> You wait and wait for a book like this, buy it,
> and when
> you get around to opening it, you just start
> expanding...
>
> There's not even any photos of Pynchon except
> that silly
> sailor one. Invisibility. Perhaps it's a vain
> celebrity peccadillo,
> but to me it works as an act of psychoanalytic
> silence, where
> what I really pay for is to have the great man
> with his mighty
> mind listen, not talk.
>
> And in that silence (still so vividly shaped by
> compassion
> and humor and intelligence) we suddenly have a
> limitless
> place to put the best of ourselves. . . .
>
> Posted by TEV at 12:01 AM in Guest Bloggers, Pynchon Week
>
> http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2006/11/pynchons_invisi.html
>
> . . . .Its corridors will begin to teem with
> children of all ages
> and sizes who run up and down the different docks
>
> whooping and hollering. The more serious are
> learning to
> fly the ship, others, never cut out for the Sky,
> are only marking
> time between visits to the surface, understanding
> that their
> destinies will be down in the finite world.
> Against the Day, p. 1084
>
> From "The Book of Thoth", Aleister Crowley, p. 73
>
> The card represents the most spiritual form of
> Isis the Eternal
> Virgin; the Artemis of the Greeks. She is clothed
> only in the
> luminous veil of light. It is important for high
> initiation to regard
> Light not as the perfect manifestation of the
> Eternal Spirit, but
> rather as the veil which hides that Spirit. It
> does so all the more
> effectively because of its incomparably dazzling
> brilliance. Thus
> she is light and the soul of light. Upon her
> knees is the bow of
> Artemis, which is also a musical instrument, for
> she is huntress,
> and hunts by enchantment.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiNmgeiK3VA
>
> Inconvenience herself is constantly having her
> engineering
> updated. As a result of advances in relativity
> theory, light is
> incorporated as a source of motive power—though
> not exactly
> fuel—and as a carrying medium—though not
> exactly a
> vehicle—occupying, rather, a relation to the
> skyship much like
> that of the ocean to a surfer on a surfboard—a
> design
> principle borrowed from the AEther units that
> carry the girls to
> and fro on missions whose details they do not
> always share
> fully with "High Command."
> Against the Day, p. 1084
>
> From "On Reincarnation" by Takashi Tsuji:
>
> Karma
>
> Karma is a Sanskrit word from the root
> "Kri" to do or to make
> and simply means "action." It operates
> in the universe as the
> continuous chain reaction of cause and effect. It
> is not only
> confined to causation in the physical sense but
> also it has
> moral implications. "A good cause, a good
> effect; a bad
> cause a bad effect" is a common saying. In
> this sense karma
> is a moral law.
>
> Now human beings are constantly giving off
> physical and
> spiritual forces in all directions. In physics we
> learn that no
> energy is ever lost; only that it changes form.
> This is the
> common law of conservation of energy. Similarly,
> spiritual
> and mental action is never lost. It is
> transformed. Thus
> Karma is the law of the conservation of moral
> energy.
>
> http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/reincarnation.html
>
> . . . .docking, each time precariously, at a
> series of remote
> stations high in unmeasured outer space, which
> together
> form a road to a destination—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—yet, each
> time, the Inconvenience is brought to safety, in
> the bright,
> flowerlike heart of a perfect hyper-hyperboloid
> that only Miles
> can see in its entirety
> Against the Day, p. 1084/1085
>
> From: "Fractal of the Day" by Jim Muth --
> September 30, 1999
>
> . . . .A fourth possible answer is a bit more
> complex. It assumes
> that four-dimensional spacetime is in fact curved
> into a
> hypersphere or hyper-hyperboloid, with the time
> line actually
> being a closed curve or a hyperbola. If this is
> the case, looking
> back in time to find the origin of the universe
> is as meaningless as
> going south on the surface of the earth with the
> intention of
> continuing in that direction until the edge of
> the planet is reached.
> In the curved spacetime scenario, if one were to
> travel far enough
> into the past, that person would ultimately reach
> the past temporal
> pole of the universe, where all time directions
> lead to the future.
>
> http://home.att.net/~Fractals_1/FotD_99-09-30.html
>
> From an anonymous article on Mantras and Buddhism:
>
> Above all else, the lotus is a symbol of
> awakening. The
> unfolding of its petals symbolizes the unfolding
> of
> consciousness as it moves towards enlightenment.
> The lotus has its roots in mud and murk but
> emerges
> as a beautiful flower. It is therefore also a
> symbol of
> hope because despite all our imperfections, the
> poisons of greed, hatred and ignorance that lie
> within
> us, we have the capacity for transformation and
> transcendence. In the words of the Buddha,
> 'within
> this very body, six feet in length, with its
> sense-impressions,
> thoughts and ideas, I declare to you, are the
> world, the
> origin of the world, and the ceasing of the
> world, and
> likewise the Way that leads to the ceasing
> thereof'.
>
> http://www.heartwood2000.com/OmManiPadmeHum1.html
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