Sportello - Door/Window/Doc/Pynchon

[David Morris]

There are many grids in GR.  The most famous one probably being Slothrop's map.

I think in IV the most pervasive sportello is the framed pixelated
grid of the TV.

David Morris

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:41 PM, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?!
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