V--2nd, Chap 10, first page all editions

[Mark Kohut]

The playing via 'sympathetic magic' that Sphere is doing is Frazerian: 
we think we know that Pynchon got lotsa stuff from The Golden Bough
piece of Wikipedia article: 
Similarity and contagion
The theory of sympathetic magic was first developed by Sir James George 
Frazer in The Golden Bough. He further subcategorised sympathetic magic into two 
varieties: that relying on similarity, and that relying on contact or 
'contagion':