against the sun

[David Payne]

Not sure if this has been mentioned here in regards the title, "Against the Day", but it just occurred to me (slow learner) that M&D has a big section on Venus' transit across (against) the sun, which seems similar to "A screaming comes across the sky." 

Doing an Amazon word search, it looks GR, AtD, and M&D all have the phrase "against the sun". 

Not to mention variations on the phrase, like "against the sunlit stucco" (AtD), "against the sky" (AtD), "against the white sun" (GR), "against the sunlit mortar" (GR), "against her warm bottom" (GR, but maybe that's better seen as the moon), and "against the white face" (GR).

I didn't check Pynchon's other books.

Word searches on Amazon:

* M&D: http://www.amazon.com/Mason-Dixon-Novel-Thomas-Pynchon/dp/0312423209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360826260&sr=8-1&keywords=mason+and+dixon

* AtD: http://www.amazon.com/Against-Day-Thomas-Pynchon/dp/0143112562/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360826462&sr=1-1&keywords=against+the+day

* GR: http://www.amazon.com/Gravitys-Rainbow-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143039946/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360827144&sr=1-1&keywords=gravity%27s+rainbow