V2nd - Chapter 11 - the tone

[David Morris]

Additionally, and in keeping w/ Pynchon's symbology, the #1 (male)
hexagram's image is lightning emerging from the sky, and the #2
(female) heagram's image is of the earth.

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:44 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> In the Chinese "Book of Changes" the first of the 64 possible hexagrams is "Ch'ien" which entails the concept of Creative Force/Movement (the purely "male" abstraction).  Conversely, the second hexagram is "K'un," meaning (among many other aspects) the Receptive.  This "receptive" is a part of Paola's mythological identity.
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> David Morris