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Joe Varo reports, on Pynchon-l at [http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112054&sort=date,] 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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Joe Varo reports, on [http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112054&sort=date Pynchon-l] regarding Cyclopropane:
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopropane Wikipedia entry]
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:"At first I thought that this was just something the TP made upBut 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?"
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:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopropane Wikipedia entry]
  
Is Cyclomite somehow related to Imipolex G?
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Quoting page 184, Varo also asks:
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:"'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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Anville Azote responds to Varo:
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:[...] 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 09:14, 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."
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.'"
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.

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