ATDTDA (38)Pink Tabs, cover

[Henry]

I agree!  Nice one, Robin (and pay no attention to that troll!)

Henry Mu
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kohut

brillaint on the cover, I think.

--- On Wed, 7/9/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel wrote:

From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
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Let's start with the cover, shall we? The book's title is seen through a hunk of clear, optical grade Calcite. The topmost  layer—the present—  has some sort of stamp of the Tibetian Chamber of Commerce.  We see the three different fonts representing the layers of time in three different  styles of typeface. 

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The overarching theme of the book is light itself and Against the Day's cover [the first printing]  encrypts a paradox or two—if light is both a wave and a particle, Iceland Spar demonstrates one particle becoming two. Pynchon works from the notion that those two particles are now running along different time axes. And there you are—different time axes, the notion that there are other presents, other futures we may or may not be living in.
 
One of those other futures is Shambhala, earthly paradise. That stamp on the cover of Against the Day is bilocated.
 
The illustration on the stamp is from about the time of the Tungusga Event, but the inscription of "Tibetan Chamber of Commerce" is from the present. The significance of that stamp will become quite 
 apparent later, in August, when we are on the Rue du  Départ:
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091874/ 
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