MDDM Ch. 70 Westeringly Manic

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 13 18:48:24 CDT 2002


   "Mason is Gothickally depressive, as Dixon is
Westeringly manic." (M&D, Ch. 70, p. 680)  

Main Entry: west·er 
Pronunciation: 'wes-t&r
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): west·ered; west·er·ing 
/-t(&-)ri[ng]/
Etymology: Middle English westren, from 1west
Date: 14th century
: to turn or move westward <the half moon westers low
-- A. E. Housman>

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

http://cityofoaks.home.netcom.com/tunes/WesteringHome.html


"Dixon's Head, like a Needle forever ninety degrees
out, tho' it wobble some, remains true to perfect
West, whilst Mason might as well be riding backwards,
so often does he look behind ...." (M&D, Ch. 70, p.
680)

http://www.the-pantheon.com/prometheus_and_epimetheus.htm

http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/char/promethe.htm

"... the Surveyors,-- who at some point exchange
Positions, with Dixon now for pushing on,
razzle-dazzling their way among the Indians at least
as far as Ohio." (M&D, Ch. 70, p. 679)

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/ROCKET_SCI/
ORBMECH/angular_momentum.html

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/conmo.html

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