MDDM Ch. 32 The Wedge

[jbor]

I think there actually was a disputed sliver of land called "The Wedge", and
that the historical detail Pynchon provides in this chapter is accurate.

http://www.dnrec.state.de.us/parks/programs/wcspprog3.htm

Mason and Dixon Were Here: The Wedge
Sunday, November 29, 12:30 p.m.
Did you know that the state boundary involving a small wedge-shaped piece of
Delaware caused more confusion, conflict and court cases than any other
boundary in the nation? Meet at the Nature Center as we trek over some of
the territory in question and hear stories of the notorious "Wedge."

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8074/thewedge.html

http://www.theledger.com/americanimp/0531_delaware.html

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on 11/2/02 8:32 PM, Otto at o.sell at telda.net wrote:

> "The social consequences of materialism have been devastating. As symptoms,
> those consequences are certainly worth treating. However, we are convinced
> that in order to defeat materialism, we must cut it off at its source. That
> source is scientific materialism. This is precisely our strategy. If we view
> the predominant materialistic science as a giant tree, our strategy is
> intended to function as a "wedge" that, while relatively small, can split
> the trunk when applied at its weakest points. The very beginning of this
> strategy, the "thin edge of the wedge," was Phillip Johnson's critique of
> Darwinism begun in 1991 in Darwinism on Trial, and continued in Reason in
> the Balance and Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds. Michael Behe's highly
> successful Darwin's Black Box followed Johnson's work. We are building on
> this momentum, broadening the wedge with a positive scientific alternative
> to materialistic scientific theories, which has come to be called the theory
> of intelligent design (ID). Design theory promises to reverse the stifling
> dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science
> consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.
> (...)
> Goethe's Mephistopheles proclaims in Faust:
> Despise reason and science,
> humanity's greatest strengths,
> indulge in illusions and magical practices
> that reinforce your self-deception,
> and you will be unconditionally lost!
> 
> http://www.infidels.org/secular_web/feature/1999/wedge.html
> 
> I'm really not sure if this has something to do with "M&D" but I came across
> it on a google-search and thought I pass along:
> http://www.freethought-web.org/ctrl/archive/wedge_document.html
> (enlarge the tree)
> 
> Otto
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:31 AM
> Subject: MDDM Ch. 32 Summary, Notes
> 
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>> There follows a narrative excursus regarding "the Wedge" or
>> "Delaware Triangle", which is like the Bermuda Triangle except
>> it is the vehicles of lawyers rather than aliens into which all
>> property and wealth seems to vanish, "yea unto the year 1900,
>> and beyond".
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