IVIV (1) "She came along the alley and up the back steps ..."

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jim Gilbert<posthorn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Speaking of the balloon going up (or not)....
>
> Is it just me, or does Pynchon, since GR, have a thing about opening
> his books with things going UP, or otherwise flying? Rockets in GR,
> blue jays in VL, snowballs in M&D, the Inconvenience in AtD, now
> Shasta ascending the stairs....

Indeed, but here, IV is alomst the invers of GR, in particular.  An
arc up, rather than down, and ompletely comparable to past practice,
vs. there being "nothing to compare it to now" ...