IVIV Sportello

[Doug Millison]

So, IV is shaping up as yet another Pynchon novel that you can peel  
like an onion, layer after layer?  Not just a throwaway detective noir  
parody? Something more than the casual ramblings of a stoned hippie?   
Quelle surprise!


Dave Monroe:
[…]
>> "If the grid of Leon Battista Alberti derives from the method of
>> quadrettatura mployed by painters to enlarge their drawings, the
>> so-called 'sportello,' or window, of Albrecht Durer seems to show a
>> more direct link with the cartographers' grid....  The  
>> 'sportello' ...
>> represents a constant reference point in the literature on  
>> perspective
>> of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." (p. 180)
>>
>> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10363
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=7Pd0qRQB18kC
>
> "... a window to look out of when he couldn't deal with looking out of
> the traditional glass-type one in the other room." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 6)