Cyclomite

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Joe Varo reports, on Pynchon-l at [1] regarding Cyclopropane, "At first I thought that this was just something the TP made up. But just for the hell of it I looked it up and found that it is an explosive with anaesthetic properties, or vice versa."

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Quoting page 184, Varo also asks, " 'From then on, whenever a dynamite blast went off, even far away out of earshot, something concurrent was triggered somewhere in Lew's consciousness...after awhile even if one was only about [italics in original] to go off. Anywhere.' Am I missing something or reading too much into it? Or does this make cyclomite akin to another pynchonian compound?"

Is Cyclomite somehow related to Imipolex G?


Anville Azote responds to Varo: [...] There's a darkly comic scene hinging on this property in the first episode of James Burke's series **Connections** (1978), wherein the Great Northeastern Blackout strikes just when a woman is giving birth to twins --- under cyclopropane anaesthesia. In the darkness, a nurse walks into the room with a lighted candle. . . . [...] [2] to

One should perhaps note the triangular shape of cyclopropane.

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