AtDTDA: [38] p. 1085 They fly towards grace.

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

          Dave Monroe:
          Does this ending seem to imply, at least, an 
          uncharcteristic transcendence here?  Certainly, 
          those Pynchonian demnouments have 
          (seemingly, at any rate) been rather more 
          upbeat (perhaps even less equivocal) since 
          Gravity's Rainbow, but ...

Now that you mention it, I was moved by the ending in
a way that other Pynchon novels simply did not allow.
The penultimate scene of AtD is a success story, perhaps
the oldest of Broadway Musical "Books", Guy meets girl, 
after various separations, trials and so on a transparent
Dues ex mechina or two gets them back together. And as you 
point out, the Chums are not betrayed by gravity. . . .

          . . . .As the sails of her destiny can be reefed against 
          too much light, so they may also be spread to catch 
          a favorable darkness. Her ascents are effortless now. 
          It is no longer a matter of gravity—it is an acceptance of sky. 

There is an Icarus-like quality to the proceedings, but at the same time :

          . . . .the sails of her destiny can be reefed against too much light. . . .

While string theory allows that the Paris garden in the morning is one 
of the infinite possible worlds.

          More than 400 years ago, the Dominican monk Giordano Bruno 
          was burned at the stake for making a heretical claim: that our 
          universe was inifnite and contained an infinite number of worlds.

          Today, cosmologists arguing a similar point - that our universe is 
          but one of many universes comprising a larger “multiverse” - are 
          hoping for a better fate, maybe even a Nobel Prize. There is 
          growing acknowledgement among physicists and astronomers 
          that this idea, outlandish as it sounds, just might be true.

Much more at:

http://evolutionblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/multiple-universes.html