Sportello - Door/Window/Doc/Pynchon

[John Carvill]

> David Morris:
> The grid is a famously ubiquitous modern ordering tool.  A Sportello
> is  a framed limited portion of a limitless grid, and its contents are
> essentially an editing of a much larger reality.
>
> A sportello grid is essentially a tool capturing the projection of a
> 3D view onto a 2D plane, sort of a precursor to a photograph.
>

Yes, well put. And doesn't all the foregoing just *throb* with Pynchon
resonances?!