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| − | Joe Varo reports, on | + | Joe Varo reports, on [http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112054&sort=date Pynchon-l] 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." | |
| − | + | :[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopropane Wikipedia entry] | |
| − | + | 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.'" | ||
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| + | :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 [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=I#imipolex Imipolex G]? | ||
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| − | One should perhaps note the triangular shape of cyclopropane. | + | :[...] 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... [...] [http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112055&sort=date] |
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| + | One should perhaps note the triangular shape of cyclopropane. Indeed one should! Only just took the trouble to look at that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopropane Wikipedia entry], and follow the definitions for Cyclopropane/ tetrahedranes/ tetrahedrals: | ||
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| + | :"Cyclopropanes taken to the extreme are tetrahedranes and propellanes." | ||
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| + | :"Tetrahedrane is a hypothetical hydrocarbon with chemical formula C4H4 and a tetrahedral structure." | ||
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| + | :"A tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra) is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, three of which meet at each vertex." | ||
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| + | So no wonder Lew falls in with the [[T#twit|T.W.I.T.]] (True Worshippers of the Ineffable Tetractys): | ||
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| + | :"The Tetractys is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row. As a mystical symbol, it was very important to the followers of the secret worship of the Pythagoreans." | ||
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| + | And this is all yet aother instance of the 4 motif. Great stuff. | ||
Latest revision as of 08:14, 8 March 2007
Joe Varo reports, on Pynchon-l 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."
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... [...] [1]
One should perhaps note the triangular shape of cyclopropane. Indeed one should! Only just took the trouble to look at that Wikipedia entry, and follow the definitions for Cyclopropane/ tetrahedranes/ tetrahedrals:
- "Cyclopropanes taken to the extreme are tetrahedranes and propellanes."
- "Tetrahedrane is a hypothetical hydrocarbon with chemical formula C4H4 and a tetrahedral structure."
- "A tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra) is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, three of which meet at each vertex."
So no wonder Lew falls in with the T.W.I.T. (True Worshippers of the Ineffable Tetractys):
- "The Tetractys is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row. As a mystical symbol, it was very important to the followers of the secret worship of the Pythagoreans."
And this is all yet aother instance of the 4 motif. Great stuff.
