Fwd: In the zone: perception and presentation of space in German and American ... - Hugo Caviola - Google Books

[Mark Kohut]

Looking up the phrase "In the Zone" in Google Books to check some possible
resonances from Pynchon, I learned this. Except for a literal use in an old
astronomy book from 1915...stars in a zone....*.Gravity's Rainbow* is the
earliest
work to use it...(page 4 of my google books search).....

Seems, from a book about,  there was a place outside, around Paris in the
mid-eighteen hundreds referred to as the Zone, which seems to have been
very like a preterite
zone, a Nighttown zone, ala my recent post.

>From Google Books, there is no indication that later (than GR ) uses of In
the Zone--
that famous psychological meaning [with Flow] or in golf and anything else
existed (in books) before GR and before the time of GR.

Here is a scholarly book that starts with using Pynchon's phrase.....




https://books.google.com/books?id=3qJZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22In+the+zone%22&dq=%22In+the+zone%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRm5TZoMfKAhUFvYMKHeTEBxo4KBDoAQgiMAA


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