MD[ead]MD[ead](8): Nationalism?

[Michel Ryckx]

"I regard myself as a practitioner of British Science now." (M&D,
121.14).  It is Dixon speaking.

Must be the Cock Ale, he?  It is in contrast with France, not being at
war with the sciences, a few chapters earlier.

Then the clocks talking: they are of British origin.  The Dutch clocks
are too noisy, ("the Rudeness of the native Clocks" at 123.2) according
to the Ellicott clock, a thing Mason couldn't get used to.

A chapter with nationalism in it.  But: Dixon may be drunk --there is
really a lot of drinking going on in this novel-- ; and a clock's
credibility must yet be proven.  No need then to read Gravity's
Rainbow's You Want Cause And Effect in this chapter.

Well, it caused in this reader a minor 'Tremolo of amusement' (M&D,
122.36).

Michel.