at least tangentially P-related: Class of all classes

[Mark Kohut]

Ah!........an angular path.................here's one of three Google Books uses.......
  http://books.google.com/books?id=vIw5m2XuvpIC&pg=PA599&lpg=PA599&dq=%22curve+which+is+everywhere+continuous%22&source=web&ots=jP0RQPiM57&sig=ZK31Tq5LMfywXHum3muoosAjc28&hl=en
   
   
   
  

David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
  
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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