As if it possessed the substance of an invention or a battle, the negative result took its place in the history of Cleveland, as another of the revealed mysteries of light.
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"history of Cleveland"
I just read* the Wikipedia page "History of Cleveland" and didn't find a single mention of the Michelson-Morley experiment which only proves that Thomas Pynchon knows more about everything important than anybody else in space and time.
* Pressed CTRL-F and searched for the number of times "Michelson" appeared in the text. It was 0.
"revealed mysteries of light"
Illumination reveals what has previously not been seen. So this is kind of a joke, I think. It might not be as funny a joke as "the history of Cleveland", but I thought it was pretty good.
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