at least tangentially P-related: Class of all classes

[grladams at teleport.com]

Cool. I have often, in my pencil marked copy, written the word flip or
flipping. I think I found some rieman space designs which were almost
spherical but with a curved edge rising out and up, and along it's path,
you could view not only the topography ahead, but also above you, this was
how I got it. and the hairspray can bashed and punctured was kick ass.

Jill

Original Message:
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From: David Payne dpayne1912 at hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 03:12:09 +0000
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: at least tangentially P-related: Class of all classes



Way back on 9 May 2008, Mark (markekohut at yahoo.com) wrote:

> A-And since Pynchon's lines remind me of almost everything, [...]
> how about 'the rocket's curve"....and the below?

Actually, *if* I understand the "curve which is everywhere continuous and
nowhere differentiable" correctly (that's a *big* if) -- this is not the
smooth curve the rocket's path or rainbow; it is angular, pointed like a V
or the path of a punctured hairspray can ricochetted off a wall; more like
the crocodile's snapping teeth than the camel's undulating back.

So Yashmeen (ATD 589) is not so much sinuous and curvy as she is angles,
points, and lines--all elbows, knees, and neck? 

I'm thinking Yashmeen's more Olive Oyl than Betty Boop?

Only mathemathics can answer these questions of beauties.

Of course the math reference may be metaphorical, referring to Yasheen'
sturn-on-a-dime life full of disappearing acts -- a lifestyle desired by
that Polish undertaker in Gravity's Rainbow (677-678, Penguin).
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