on the Sportello thread

[Mark Kohut]

I cannot find Morris's (I think) terrif thread on many of the 
meanings of sportello as a still-used tool (for architectural drawing,
at least, I guess?)...

But anyway, maybe this is so obvious to all when they read it that it
did not need put down, but the fact that a sportello is a tool that projects a three-dimensional surface onto a two-dimensional one---if I
remember that rightly--is a wonderful metaphor for the writing artist,
no?......

I mean Who else, who else, who else but Pynchon?---or maybe the late V. Nabokov would even find such a great metaphor? 

Again, I think an essay along the lines of "Inherent Vice": Portrait of
the Artist While Projecting His World or While Finding His Vision could be
written. Plenty p-listers, led by Robin it must be said, have proven that, it seems to me. Pynchon does like the detective metaphor. Lots, most literally with Lew Basnight, an evident Lew Archer homage who does find out some of the deepest truths in Against The Day.