mdmd(4) - Notes

[Doug Millison]

At 5:38 PM 7/17/97, Brian D. McCary wrote:
>MDMD(4)
>Chapter 13:
>126.7   "Tho' small in secular Dimensions..."  Repeated later in the
>Lepton castle.

This also recalls the vehicle so much larger on the inside than it appears
from the outside. "Loaves and Fishes" is a direct reference to the
miraculous -- "no end of corners yet to be turn'd" --  which "Philosophy"
would deny, interesting in the context of Pynchon's "Age of Miracles" and
"Age of Reason" oppostion in his 1984 "Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?" essay.
Maskelyne's "lucid and sincere" appearance as he reports this echoes
Dixon's when he relates the fantastic to Mason later on, in Chapter 75's
story of Terra Concava.


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