MDMD(5)----Rebekah

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

I wrote:
> My pathetic Webster's Ninth New Collegiate says a bit about that New Age
> connotation of telluric mentioned by Eric:
>     3. being or relating to a usu. natural electric current flowing
>        near the earth's surface.
> Given the importance of various earthly currents in M&D I'd guess P.
> intends something to do with this meaning.

and Andrew D. replied:
> That's a very specific use of telluric and I doubt it is one which
> Pynchon's use can bear as a reading. 

I now say:
I don't think it's so far-fetched as all that, considering the later
importance in M&D of *Sha*, not to mention the lead plates buried by the
Frenchman de Bienville that Dixon thinks may have "Electrickal Purpose"
and wonders "Why may not these Plates collectively form a Tellurick
Leyden-Pile?"  It seems quite possible that the "Tellurick Secrets"  that
Rebekah says even Mopery could learn of could include these things. 

	Steve Maas

	"Ah, but I was so much older then,
	I'm younger than that now." --Bob Dylan