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Although that’s awful close to nobility for Slothrop and the penis he thought was his own

Double integral is also the shape of lovers curled asleep…

There is a brenschluss point for every firing site. They still hang up there, all of them, a constellation waiting to have a 13th sign of the zodiac named for it… but they lie so close to earth that from many places, they can’t be seen at all, and from different places inside the zone where they can be seen, they fall into completely different patterns…

And what is the specific shape whose center of gravity is the Brenschluss point? Don’t jump at an infinite number of possible shapes. There’s only one it is most likely an interface between one order of things and another.

But in the dynamic space of the living rocket, the double integral has a different meaning, to integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled…” meters per second” will integrate to “meters”. The moving vehicle is frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never launched. it will never fall.

In the static space of the architect, he might’ve used a double integral now and then early in his career to find values under surfaces, whose equations were known— masses, moments centers of gravity. But it’s been years since he’s had to do with anything that basic. Most of his calculating these days with marks and pfennings, not functions of idealistic r and Ø, naive X and Y

he had noted this parabola shape around an Autobahn overpasses sports stadiums USW. And thought it was the most contemporary thing he’d ever seen.

No, this rocket city so widely lit against the calm, dimness of space is set up deliberately to avoid symmetry, allow complexity, induced terror (from the preamble to the articles of immachination)—but tourists have to connect the look of it back to things they remember from their times and planet— back to the wine bottle smashed in the basin the bristlecone pines out racing death for millennia

Strangely, these are not the symmetry we were programmed to expect not the fences, the streamlined corners, pylons or simple, solid geometry of the official vision at all that’s for the ribbon clerks back on the tour in the numbered Stollen.

There is hurried, basic instruction on what to do in case of any encounter with the dead.“Remember they were always on the defensive here.When the Americans liberated Dora,the prisoners who were still alive went on a rampage after the material—they looted,they ate and drank themselves sick.For others,Death came like the American Army,and liberated them spiritually.So they’re apt to be on a spiritual rampage now