Good Morning from Manhattan Beach, 1970. Chap. 16, the IV of IV

[John Bailey]

True. And thinking about it, from my sunfaded memories of photography
I recall that daylight is at the blue end of the spectrum whereas
artificial light is more red - Doc and Tito are flying *towards* the
day (though likely not grace).

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "Like spacemen in a space ship, they
>> were pressed violently into the
>> seat backs as Tito engaged some classified performance
>> feature, and
>> outside the windows city neon began to lengthen in long
>> spectral
>> blurs, to shift toward blue ahead while in the black
>> distances framed
>> by Tito's mirror each point of light grew reddish,
>> receded,
>> converged."
>>
> John B sez:
>> This is classic Pynchon - physics-related talk centring on
>> the light
>> spectrum and velocity and cars and, perhaps, time travel,
>> but framing
>> it in something from a trashy SF movie/tv show.
>
> It is also classic for his poetic associations: "city neon"...."spectral"
> ....'blue', that sad color that pervades Vineland....the 'black distances'...and those points of light in the mirror......hints of Brenschluss?.....
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