RE: GR translation: two lobes symmetrical about the rocket's intended azimuth

[Monte Davis]

He's talking about antenna radiation patterns, e.g. this
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_lobe> 

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of David Morris
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:55 PM
To: Prashant Kumar
Cc: Mike Jing; Pynchon Mailing List
Subject: Re: GR translation: two lobes symmetrical about the rocket's
intended azimuth

 

And, if so, the two lobes obviously correspond to brain lobes.

On Monday, June 18, 2012, David Morris wrote:

OK, but please elaborate.  Would the two lobes be the space to either side
of the rocket's trajectory?

On Monday, June 18, 2012, Prashant Kumar wrote:

The azimuthal axis splits a sphere in half, depending on whether you take a
parallel or transverse cut. Hence two lobes.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Azimuth-Altitude_schemati
.svg
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Azimuth-Altitude_schemat
ic.svg> 

 

This ties in with the three meanings of "ab-hauen"

 

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abhauen

 

On 18 June 2012 23:31, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

"two lobes symmetrical about the rocket's intended azimuth."

I think the two lobes are the two sides of the rockets trajectory,
upwar and downward.


On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P209.27-210.4   Sir Stephen introduces himself, freckles roused by the
> sun, eying the comic book curiously. "I gather this isn't a study
> period."
> "Is he cleared?"
> "He's cleared," Katje smiling/shrugging at Dodson-Truck.
> "Taking a break from that Telefunken radio control. That 'Hawaii I.'
> You know anything about that?"
> "Only enough to wonder where they got the name from."
> "The name?"
> "There's a poetry to it, engineer's poetry . . . it suggests Haverie-
> average, you know-certainly you have the two lobes, don't you,
> symmetrical about the rocket's intended azimuth . . . hauen, too-
> smashing someone with a hoe or a club . . ." off on a voyage of his
> own here, smiling at no one in particular, bringing in the popular
> wartime expression ab-hauen, quarterstaff technique, peasant humor,
> phallic comedy dating back to the ancient Greeks. . . . Slothrop's
> first impulse is to get back to what that Plas is into, but something
> about the man, despite obvious membership in the plot, keeps him
> listening . . . an innocence, maybe a try at being friendly in the
> only way he has available, sharing what engages and runs him, a love
> for the Word.
>
> What are these "two lobes"?  Two halves of the rocket, the rocket's
> trajectory, or something else?

 

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