Sportello - Door/Window/Doc/Pynchon

[John Carvill]

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

Indeed. And I think there was probably quite a lot of relevant stuff
in Against the Day - the Venetian sequences, for instance.

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

Hmmmmmm. I like the connection between grids, perspective, sportellos,
and photography. IV as a 'snapshot' of Pynchon's environment and era
whilst writing GR, which itself was, in part, 'about' that same
environment and era. That and the mental image of Pynchon, leaning out
of the upper half of his Sportello-like door, in Manhattan Beach,
watching that environement and era go by.