MDDM Ch. 22 Notes (1)

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks for keeping up with this, by the way ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> 215.11 "Emerson"

And thank you, Cyrus, for this one, which I didn't
have ...
 
> Emerson, William (1701-82)
> 
> "Jeremiah Dixon and his Brother", by H.P. Hollis,
> Journal of the British Astronomy Association, v44,
> n8, June 1934, pp 294-9:

To which I'll add ...

Robinson, H.W. "Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--A
   Biographical Note," Proceedings of the American
   Philosophical Society, Vol. 93, No. 3 (June
   1950): 272-4 ...

   "It is known that Jeremiah received his early
education at John Kipling's School at Barnard Castle
and it was here that he first became interested in
mathematics and astronomy.  Apparently he did not
think
much of the teaching at the school for when later
examined at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich he
is reported to have stated that his seat of learning
was 'a pit cabin upon Cockfield Hall.'
   "From the time when Jeremiah left school until 1760
we must assume that he had some training in surveying
work and it was then that he decided to adopt this
work for his profession.
   "He had from an early age made the acquaintance of
many eminent men (all of kindred genius) who emanated
from South Durham in the eighteenth century.  He was
on very intimate terms with William Emerson, the
celebrated mathematician of Hurworth, County Durham
...."  (p. 272)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59824&sort=date

Which ...

Foreman, David.  "Historical Documents Relating to
   Mason & Dixon."  Pynchon and Mason & Dixon.  Ed.
   Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin.  Newark: U of
   Delaware P, 2000.  143-66

... fingers as a likely source for Mr. Pynchon's
Historickal Fiction ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59657&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59727&sort=date

> 217.2 "As Mr Tox says in his _Pennsylvaniad_ ... "
> First mention.

For Alexander Pope's Dunciad (1728, 1742), see ...
  
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/pope16.html

http://www.bartleby.com/219/0315.html

http://www.bartleby.com/219/0321.html

And recall as well ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9710&msg=20989&sort=date

Other "-id"s/"-ad"s/"-iad"s that come to mind: The
Aeneid of Vergil (17 BCE); "The Menelaid" and "The
Anonymiad" of John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse
(1968); The Cyberiad of Stanislaw Lem (1965) ...

http://cyberiad.info/english/dziela/cyberiada/cyberiadapl.htm

> 219.31 "Ormazd, God of Light" Ormuzd, or Ahura
> Mazda. Zoroastrians regard Ormuzd as the principle
> or angel of light and good, and as the creator of
> all things and judge of the world. He is in
> perpetual conflict with Ahriman (the spirit of evil)
> but in the end will triumph. Ormuzd is the
> abbreviated name of the old Persian Ahura Mazda ...

Who I believe ...

Bloom, Harold.  Omens of Millenium: The Gnosis
   of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection. New York:
   Riverhead, 1996.

... fingers as the probable conceptual source for the
Jodeo-Christian God ...

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