V-2nd - Chapter 8 - real quick wind-up / Thank you and goodnight

[Mark Kohut]

Dear Michael,

Thank you...good, rich---too full to respond to fully, which is 
good---interesting. Lotsa connections
to lotsa things.......

Don't go silent now, 'kay?

Mark


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, October 10, 2010 1:13:55 AM
Subject: V-2nd - Chapter 8 - real quick wind-up / Thank you and goodnight

I had a gyroscope, when I was a kid.  Thing made me a bit dizzy to watch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrocompass
gyrocompasses have two main advantages over magnetic compasses:
    * they find true north, i.e., the point of the Earth's rotational
axis on the Earth's surface, as opposed to magnetic north, –an
extremely important aspect in navigation, and
    * they are unaffected by external magnetic fields which deflect
normal compasses, such as those created by ferrous metals in a ship's
hull.

(for the curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_gyro
http://www.kronosproducts.com/freegyros.html) (hyeugh hyeugh)


So Pynchon was aware of ex-Nazis in American tech industries...

Mondaugen, by this time a "balding and porcine gentleman in a suit of
European cut", supplies the raw material and Stencil does the
half-hour Stencilizing!


Thanks for being the kind and wonderful list members that you all are,
and for allowing me the pleasure of this explication!  Thanks to Mr
Pynchon for writing this wonderful book among others.

I look forward to further insights and to following rather than trying
to lead (I've always had kind of a problem with trying to embody any
part of that whole "leadership" concept...) what, day after day,
continues to be a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion!



-- 
- But you can wade in the water
and never get wet
if you keep on doin' that rag (Grateful Dead, "Doin' That Rag")