Even NASA knows. Or Esp NASA knows.

[Monte Davis]

Maybe. Also, any engineering student would know the conic sections -- and
anyone with P's obvious intellectual omnivory would have registered the
"magic" of the Greeks categorizing them... then  ~1500 years of desultory
poking around their mathematical properties... then wowie zowie, from
Kepler on they turn out to describe/predict all kinds of motion.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 6:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Monte,
>
> Somehow, fully sea-changed, not in any match-up correspondence way, don't
> you think Tom had all that circular
> design architecture from Dante's Comedia swirling around inside so he
> could keep thinking conically, so to speak?
> Possibly, unproveably but in much likelihood?
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes. Every time through GR, I find more variant riffs on the conic
>> sections (point, line, circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola) and a thousand
>> kinds of literal and metaphoric "movement." More often than not, cyclic
>> progressions -- the circle that the rainbow would be if it were not cut off
>> by the horizon, Saturn's ever-so-slightly-elliptical rings -- are good.
>>
>> Interrupted ones -- the parabolic rocket trajectory which yearns to be an
>> orbit or escape, but runs into a target first -- not so much.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 3:29 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia22418/gravity-s-rainbow
>>> --
>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
>