Fair enough - wasn't trying to defend the choice of title, just to explain it (or at least, explain what I believe its source must have been, I guess it could have been a very odd coincidence).
Your explanation is most likely correct
The title probably says exactly what the author intended
my only, and rather slight, point was, that I doubt that the title is punchy enough for my memory to transfer it to long-term storage, so when asked in conversation to name that story about the poisonous bicycles that was on escapepod (yes, I really do have geek friends that might) if it's more than about three weeks from now, chances are slim I'll be able to do it without a keyboard and a connection.
Allusions are fair game, but 1) SF fans and 2) people with an intimate and extensive knowledge of early to mid twentieth century modernist poetry don't strike me as being obviously congruent sets, Otherwise we'd all be lolling about severally discussing the ticketed gew-gaws on the death star, or Jar-Jar Binks and the scuttling claws (Although... that one is growing on me as I look at it) - However "Look to Windward" and "Consider Phlebas" both from The Wasteland, I suppose, but at least Banks quotes the quote as it was pronounced to us giving us the source before the text begins.
Bah...now you've made me analyse what was meant to be a lightweight disposable quip, I shall go off to press my back against windows, leaving only a random smiley