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

[Mark Kohut]

Against the Sky, so to speak, for most...not L49, nor IV, I'd argue..more earthbound on purpose.....even V. might have a hidden one--see V. wiki---
Earth-Cosmos connection.

As someone wrote of Ross MacDonald, who started about all his books with them jays, the ambition is stated.  What is the relation to the cosmos?

--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (1) "She came along the alley and up the back steps ..."
> To: "Jim Gilbert" <posthorn at gmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 5:46 PM
> 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" ...
>