Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Pages 58-59: Lines 35-38 (1016-1019):

"Mr. Rideout, we wander at the present moment through a sort of vorticalist twilight, holding up the lantern of the Maxwell Field Equations and squinting to find our way. Michelson's done this experiment before, in Berlin, but never so carefully. This new one could be the giant arc-lamp we need to light our way into the coming century. I don't know . . .

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