M & D Deep Duck and Delta Dog.
David Ewers
dsewers at comcast.net
Wed Jan 14 11:14:21 CST 2015
Yes, cool! ThanksI would have never gotten this if you hadn't pointed it out to me.
(Real loosely) speaking of deltas: Even though it was a different part of Africa they went to, I think it's interesting that M & D's journey from England to Africa to N. America back to England describes somewhat the Triangle Trade circuit.
On Jan 14, 2015, at 6:01 AM, Ray Easton wrote:
> Wow! Sometimes I am *very* dense.
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> On January 14, 2015 8:49:46 AM Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The Pynchon Wiki is your friend, Mark:
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>> Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x
>> is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x.
>> Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.
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>> The same gag appears in GR: 'integral of 1 over cabin d cabin = Log cabin +
>> c = houseboat'.
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>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > pp. 18--19 Another Tempest allusion.
>> > 'Does the dog know, Where the Bee Sucks?"
>> >
>> > Then there is THIS: 'What is the integral of
>> > One over (Book) d (Book)?
>> >
>> > That is a delta there, yes? delta is VERY P, RIGHT?
>> >
>> > P.19 SEE DIRAC DELTA FUNCTION...
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>> > Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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>> > The Dirac delta function is a non-physical, singularity function with
>> > the ... The Dirac delta function (also known as the impulse function)
>> > can be defined as the ...
>> >
>> > You smart scientists can finish the sentence above, I just want to
>> > point to the word
>> > 'singularity', at least another association of uniqueness?
>> >
>> > And what means (Book) d (Book)?
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