The spinning wheel and the reclaiming curve — the annular/spin imagination
echoes
From: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (in Girl With Curious Hair)
- Early text:
quote J.D.'s hobby of watching spins: "You stare into a spinning thing, stare hard: you can see something inside the spin sputter, catch, and seem to spin backwards inside the spin, against the spin." [westward-the-course-of-empire-takes-its-way:p44]; the closing image, the towed car's free wheel: "something unseen inside the blur of spokes seems to sputter, catch, and spin against the spin, inside." [westward-the-course-of-empire-takes-its-way:p908]; and the flat land where "you can see right to the edge of where everything curves" [westward-the-course-of-empire-takes-its-way:p823].
- IJ echo: IJ's annular / Sierpinski-gasket organizing design — recursion and return, the line that curves back (a whole-book structural property, no single scene).
- Weight: shared-preoccupation