MDDM Chapter 44 "a haze of green Resurrection" (441.2)

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> I wondered whether it was Easter Friday - it's 1764, right? If it is then
> it's quite conspicuous and telling that no-one mentions that it is (i.e. the
> Christian, celebratory context - Good Friday, sun dancing etc), including
> Pynchon/the narrator. Not even Wicks. Unless it comes up later.
> 
> I imagine the point in the text is, unless there is proof to the contrary
> somewhere, that they did begin marking the West Line on Friday April 5,
> 1764, and that it was the beginning of spring.
> 
> best

But I think it is 1765. I don't think April 5th, 1764 was a Friday.  
April 5th, 1765 was Good Friday.  Spring did not begin  on April 5th
1764 or April 5th 1765.  I think there was an eclipse one on the first
day of Spring 1765. In any event, I think the green resurrection has as
much to do with spring as with Christ.  Of course, as I noted, the good
and therefore bad luck friday execution of christ is noted in the text.
Not in this chapter, but that doesn't matter. Of course the Christian
friday is also associated with the coal ship (mystical & magical gifts)
sailors and other myths of Dixon's childhood. I imagine that Mason is
not simply bitter about having lost his manhood and his magic and his
mystical gifts.