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V6.33 - 35, B7.17-19, P7.7-9 the sun . . . striking the rocket’s exhaust . . . making them blaze clear across the sea A fascinating image: the missile’s vapor trail would bend the rays of sunlight into a rainbow, not arch-shaped, as one initially suspects, but perfectly circular. Here is why. Later in part 1 (V100.36), Pynchon notes that the rockets were launched from The Hague on London at a compass bearing of 260 degrees WSW, a detail he found in Kooy and Uytenbogaart (Ballistics of the Future 285). In mid-December, when Pirate observes this dawn firing, the sun would be nearing its lowest southern latitudes, approximately over South-West Africa (now Namibia), the topos for many of Pynchon’s Herero references. The sun would be ascending at a bearing of about 170 degrees ESE, or perpendicular to the rocket’s line of trajectory and forming, incidentally, a cross in the sky. Now since a rainbow of illuminated light moves in a direction opposite to that of its source—that is, since the rainbow falls as the sun rises—then this imagined rainbow would be high overhead relative to any observer who might be standing one-half to one mile east-southeast of the rocket’s airborne vapor trail. Such an imaginary observer would see a circular rainbow and not the arch we normally witness, one-half of which plunges into the earth. Pynchon reminds us of this fact as GR draws to a close: “Of Course It Begins Infinitely Below The Earth and Goes On Infinitely Back Into the Earth” (V726.19-20). Note that Pirate’s rainbow is imagined: to observe it under these circumstances one would have to be perched high over the North Sea.