M&D 322 was M&D(380): My name and stuff (fwd)

[the Robot Vegetable]

Chapter 32, can anyone help me pinpoint exactly when R.C. swallows the
watch? It seems like Pynchon never actually describes the act...(kinda
like the sex in "The Small Rain"?)

	pg. 322:

	One Midnight there is an uproar.  Dogs bark.  Axmen request
silence.  The Surveyors are out of their tents, up the Track 
somehwre taking Zenith observations.  There is a crowd in front of 
Dixon's tent.  R.C. is caught in the light of Nathe McClean's Tallow-
Dip, just as the last bit of Gold Chain, suck'd between his Lips 
like a Chinese Noodle, disappears.


Chapter 34, M&D's visit to the massacre sight, is one of the most moving
things by far. A-and what about that "Does Britannia, when she sleeps,
dream?" paragraph? God, that's great writing.

	Visiting massacre sites is a powerful experience.  I went
by the Mountain Meadow Massacre in southern Utah one time.  I am
not Mormom, nor have I kin that passed this way.  It was a shock
to be there.  The spirits still talk.


	veg