Help please

[Bekah]

...  a flashlight an orange and a toothpick with a (raising balloon)  
at the top.  As the orange rotates toward the east and the flashlight  
appears to set in the west,  what gets dark first?   The base of the  
toothpick the shadow progressing upward.  But the text says the  
"raising (balloon)" does,  the shadow arc moving downward.
I think the toothpick is attached to the balloon?

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Bekah


On Mar 23, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> An enigma. The ordinary way of analyzing it: Make a model, say a
> flashlight, an orange and a toothpick mooring line with a raisin
> balloon at the top. As the orange rotates toward the east and the
> flashlight appears to set in the west, what gets dark first? The base
> of the toothpick, the shadow progressing upward. But the text says the
> raisin does, the shadow arc moving downward.
>
> It's very curious that immediately following this apparently
> topsy-turvy paragraph Miles says "As above, so below." Significant?
>
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php? 
> title=ATD_792-820#Page_796
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php? 
> title=Talk:ATD_792-820
>
> I have read this since it was first posted on the wiki more than  
> once....I couldn't visualize it
> ...figured I'd go away and try again....................like  
> now............
>
> I still can't visulaize how the model works.......(I must have a  
> blind spot over the arc of my eyelids...)
>
> anyone, anyone?
>
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