Hint of Against The Day in Gravity's Rainbow?

[Alex Nunez]

Apologies if this has been brought up before.

While reading the story of Byron the Bulb in GR, I came across this passage
which sounds like Pynchon giving a hint about his future work, Against The
Day. Page 651 on my Vintage edition:

"But here something odd happens. Yes, damned odd. The plan is to smash up
Byron and send him back right there in the shop to cullet and batch—salvage
the tungsten, of course—and let him be reincarnated in the glassblower's
next project (a balloon setting out on a journey from the top of a white
skyscraper)."

The balloon obviously being the Chums and the white skyscraper representing
Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition.

What do you all think?
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