According to novel, Lyle Bland’s experience of fleeing gravity is closely connected with a positive evaluation of this cosmic power. Before embarking on his Messianic experiments, Bland visits a room full of broken pinball machines that accommodate balls from the planetoid Katspiel. A globe’s circle depends on two main subjects: the globe’s speed and the gravitation fullfilled by the sun it circles. Katspiel’s is a “veryvery elliptical orbit—which is to say it passed by Earth only once, a long time ago, […] and nobody knows where Katspiel is now or when, or if, it’ll be back. It’s that acquaintance division between return and one-shot visitation”. Only if gravity is superior than the energy because of velocity does the globe return. N. Katherine
