M&D Spoiler question p. 242

[doktor at primenet.com]

Juan Cires Martinez writes:

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>On page 242:
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> "He must, if one day call'd upon, produce an overhead view of a World
>  that never was, in truth-like detail, one he'd begun in silence to
>  contrive,-- a Map entirely within his mind, of a World he could escape
>  to, if he had to.  If he had to, he would enter it entirely but never
>  get lost, for he would have this Map, and in it, spread below, would
>  lie ev'rything,-- Mountains of Glass, Sea of Sand, miraculous Springs,
>  Volcanoes, Sacred Cities, mile-deep Chasm, Serpent's Cave, endless
>  Prairie... another chapbook-Fancy with each Deviation and Dip of the
>  Needle."
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>Could someone explain the expression "each Deviation and Dip of the
>Needle"?

FWIW, I took this as referring to the irregularities in the earth's
magnetic field that cause compass needles to deviate from magnetic north.

--Jimmy

  http://www.angelfire.com/oh/Insouciance/